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[ null, null, null, null, null, "Well nothing that significant happened between days 3 and 4 so that is why there was a delay. Now you can see a huge difference in the kitchen! Lee and his brother worked til 7 last night getting all the tile up. I think it looks amazing, if I may say so.\n\nSo let's recap. We picked this tile out after much deliberation at Lowe's. When Lee was putting it up he decided not to put up the accent pieces which I think was a good decision. Also, we scored some manufactured hardwood mahogony floors from Home Depot - the RMT store is going out of business. After weighing the options - laminate, manufactured hardwood or true hardwood - we went with the manrufactured for a couple reasons.\n\n1. The laminate was a lot thinner than we expected\n2. The true hardwood has to cure and was a bit out of our price range\n3. The manufactured came with a 55 yr waranty and was slightly more expensive than we wanted but it was a good deal.\n\nWe had a marathon night between Lowe's and Home Depot but it was well worth it.\n\nFrom what I understand on Friday getting the board back up that was torn off with the tile was much more of a job than expected but got done. The green walls were primed for the toupe color. There is much action about this morning. Fingers crossed everything will be done tonight! That would be so impressive - renovation in 6 days!!!\n\nI must have side note about our faucet. The Lowe's guy came and hooked up the sink and installed the faucet. Clearly this guy did not know what he was doing because he did not put the faucet together correctly - something Lee and his brother figured out after the fact AND the guy tried to blame it on the brand faucet - a Moen. Built for Looks, Built for Life. Ha! While we are on that topic, the faucet has another problem. It should go from a solid stream to a spray and back a the push of a button. Not so. After giving the beebster a bath the first night we had it, the thing is stuck between the spray and stream settings. This Moen is not everything it is cracked up to be for sure. Will update about that, but there is sure to be some words between Lee, Lowe's and Moen over this!\nat February 05, 2011" ]

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[ "As we prepare to send the first woman and next man to the Moon and on to Mars, NASA, with support from the University of Houston, has been working to develop advanced radiation detectors to better protect astronauts and vital spacecraft systems.", null, "As we prepare to send the first woman and next man to the Moon and on to Mars, NASA, with support from the University of Houston, has been working to develop advanced radiation detectors to better protect astronauts and vital spacecraft systems during solar storms. The detectors are based on technology that was originally developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to detect particle collisions in high-energy physics experiments. Storms emanating from our Sun release invisible, high energy particles, also called ionizing radiation, into space at relativistic speeds that can damage spacecraft electronics and systems, and impact the health of astronauts.\n\nAs part of NASA’s fundamental research mission, NASA previously adopted Timepix detectors to visualize the radiation environment on the International Space Station and in deep space aboard the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. Timepix, developed through the Medipix2 collaboration hosted at CERN, is part of the Medipix family of miniaturized particle imaging and detection chips. The detector is derived from the same technology used to track particle trajectories in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.\n\n“Medipix technology and the human expertise associated with it translate into a positive impact on society in many different fields, including aerospace applications,” said Aurélie Pezous, CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Officer. “We are particularly proud that Timepix helped space agencies such as NASA better understand the radiation environment in the International Space Station.”\n\nSmaller and lighter compared to previous NASA hardware, Timepix-based systems are ideal for space exploration missions and enable NASA to gather both the radiation dose and physical location of the radiation as it passes through the detector. Using advanced particle identification algorithms, NASA scientists can study the radiation spectrum inside exploration spacecraft and better understand how to protect crew during deep space missions.\n\nWhile working with the NASA Space Radiation Analysis Group at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in 2009, Nicholas Stoffle, a University of Houston doctoral student at the time, became aware of the CERN radiation detection technology. During his doctoral work, Stoffle demonstrated that a Timepix detector could accurately measure quantities needed for NASA radiation protection. He also designed algorithms to improve identification of individual particle tracks in space-based data. He then used data both from particle accelerator facilities and from the space station to complete his dissertation on identifying heavy ions with Timepix.\n\n“Timepix provides much more information than our previous instruments were capable of generating, and does so in a smaller and lighter package,” Stoffle notes. “We have an amazing team that continues to advance the state of the art in space radiation analysis with this technology, and the space station hardware has only scratched the surface in terms of the details we can extract from the data Timepix gathers in the space radiation environment.”\n\nInitial testing of the Timepix system derived from CERN technology began in 2012 on the space station using Timepix USB Lite Interface devices from the Czech Republic’s Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics. The hardware has been collecting a continuous stream of data that is downlinked daily through the Mission Control Center at Johnson.\n\nApplication to Other Missions\n\nThe on-orbit success of the Timepix enabled NASA to utilize this advanced radiation detection technology in subsequent missions. After six years of onboard testing and data collection, NASA recently updated the space station with new Timepix hardware that will continue the use of the Timepix-based devices to study the onboard charged-particle radiation environment.\n\nAdditionally, a battery-powered version was flown aboard EFT-1 in 2014 and provided the first radiation belt data from beyond low-Earth orbit within a human-rated space vehicle since the Apollo missions. The lessons learned during the Timepix-based hardware development and data analysis from the space station and EFT-1 missions have been incorporated into a new Hybrid Electronic Radiation Assessor (HERA) system that will support future NASA exploration missions.\n\nCurrently, a HERA flight unit built for the first spaceflight of the Space Launch System and Orion crew module, Artemis 1, is deployed aboard the space station to verify system operation and gain operational experience before the mission in 2020.\n\nThe Timepix-based hardware development is supported by the RadWorks project, which is part of the Advanced Exploration Systems division in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate." ]

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[ "Will keep this short\n\nMy name is Que\n\nWhen we finish you will leave with confidence, feeling on top of the world\n\nUNITA concedes loss of Andulo and Bailundo An Angolan army counter-offensive has pushed the rebel UNITA movement of Jonas Savimbi from its strongholds in the central highlands of Angola, immediately bringing some relief to the hundreds of thousands of people who had fled to government controlled cities for safety.\n\nThe threat of mass starvation in the cities of Malange, Kuito and Huambo has receded as supplies have begun to get through, although there is still a desperate need for humanitarian aid to continue.", null, "UNITA, which had previously denied that the government had taken over Bailundo and had claimed that the FAA offensive was a failure, have now admitted that the towns have fallen. The UNITA representative in Belgium, Azevedo Kanganje, was quoted in the London-based journal Southscan as saying that \"FAA deployed a lot of forces, including tanks, supported by aircraft but did not reach this target which they promised to conquer in one week. With the rains pouring down, we can say that Operacao Restauro has failed, like the previous offensives\".\n\nHowever, an Angolan radio journalist, Jaime Azulay, of the Luanda Antena Comercial radio station, reported from Bailundo that the town had been wrecked, but that it was \"not a matter of mass destruction as reported elsewhere\". Sources indicate that despite UNITA bringing some of its most experienced troops back to Andulo from the siege of Malange for a final defence of the town, the government advance was so powerful that the town was evacuated.\n\nThe sources state that a large amount of war materiel was abandoned by the rebels, including heavy artillery guns and vehicles." ]

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[ null, "Thor is one of the most popular players in baseball. He’s known for his powerful batting and his ability to hit home runs. But who is he really?\n\nThor was originally a Norse god of thunder and warfare. He was known for his strength, courage, and fighting spirit. Thor was also the god of fertility and agriculture. In the Marvel Universe, Thor is a superhero with super strength, durability, and the ability to fly.\n\nThor was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 5th round of the 2006 MLB Draft out of Cypress College. He made his Major League debut with the Orioles on September 2, 2010. He was traded to the New York Mets on July 31, 2011, and made his Mets debut on August 1, 2011.\n\nThor made his MLB debut with the Orioles on May 7, 2011, pitching five innings and giving up four earned runs in a 10–4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. He was optioned back to AAA Norfolk Tides the next day. He was recalled on May 19 and immediately placed into the starting rotation. In his first start back with Baltimore, he pitched six innings of one-run ball, getting the win as the Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 2–1. On June 17, 2011, he was optioned back to Norfolk. He was recalled on August 5.\n\nHe is a power pitcher who relies heavily on his fastball\n\nThor is a power pitcher who relies heavily on his fastball. He also has a strong slider and a good changeup. His fastball regularly tops out at 100 mph, and he has hit 103 mph on the radar gun. He has excellent control of his pitches and is able to throw them for strikes in any count.\n\nHis fastball has been clocked as high as 102 mph\n\nThor’s fastball has been clocked as high as 102 mph, and he also throws a slider, curveball and changeup. He primarily relies on his fastball, which he uses to generate a lot of strikeouts. In 2019, he struck out 215 batters in just 199 innings pitched.\n\nThor Akerfelds was born on November 10, 1966, in Burbank, California. He is the son of Irwin and Dorothy Akerfelds. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft. He played Minor League Baseball for the Padres and the Cincinnati Reds organizations. He retired from baseball in 1992.\n\nHe married his wife, Ashley, in November 2017\n\nThor married his wife, Ashley, in November 2017. The couple have one child together, a daughter named Brooklyn. Thor’s stepfather is former MLB pitcher Shawn Estes.\n\nThey have two children together", null, null, "Contents Introduction The Catawba college baseball Schedule The Team The Fans The Rivalries The Ballpark The Media The Tradition The Future Conclusion The Catawba baseball schedule is out, and we’ve got all the info you need to make sure you don’t miss a single game. From the home opener to the conference tournament we’ve got…", null, null ]

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[ null, "Psyonix has rolled out Rocket League update 2.18, which focuses on some bug fixes as well as adding support for upcoming DLC. Read on for the Rocket League July 2 patch notes.\n\nA look at the new DLC:\n\nBond has been a part of Rocket League for the past year, but we’re also celebrating the 60th anniversary of Britain’s favorite spy. Players can get 007’s Aston Martin DBS for the first time, plus the iconic James Bond Theme as a Player Anthem! Looking to go full-on super spy? Pick up the returning Aston Martin DB5 Bundle or Aston Martin Valhalla Bundle.\n\nAlthough the car does include a license to demo, please do your best to bring it back in pristine order! Players can also pick up the famous James Bond Theme Player Anthem for 300 Credits." ]

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[ "Lol: the pentakill of Rafitta in Superliga that confirms the return of Koi\n\nBlow of authority at the League of Legends Spanish. KOI has been able to defeat the Leader of Superliga to certify his candidacy at least, reach the playoffs of the competition. Balsamic triumph before FNATIC TQ that is explained in a decisive play. Rafitta , also criticized after being the shooter revelation of last season, sealed the party for tents with a sensational pentakill.\n\na pentakill flavored to history\n\nAfter a game in which Koi turned back into the lower lane, Rafitta got a considerable advantage with jinx . The Spanish shooter I accumulated an almost complete purchase when the final fight took place in the minute 31. In that state he knew that “to take a reset could become the teamfight_” and that’s how it was. Taking advantage of one of the best champions of all League of Legends when he has space to hit, he was liquidating the rivals one after another. He got, in addition to certifying the five losses, a lot of damage in the enemies of him.\n\nAttending to the results of the day, Victory has approached Koi to the playoffs . Currently, League of Legends’ superliga has five teams tied to eight victories among which is the IBAI set. In this way, four places for the final phase will have to be decided in a last week of competition with innumerable direct duels. In fact, it seems very possible that you also have to dispute several playoffs to decide the final positions of a regular phase that painted black for tents.", null, "Rafitta has assured that they are inside the playoffs and that the team has improved a lot, but he also feels unable to decide what two rivals could stay out . The Spanish League of Legends seems to be living his golden time, with teams fighting for entering the qualifiers that in any other year would have seemed candidates to raise the trophy. A year to dream that, why not, he could endorse himself with the return to the country of the European Masters, of which no Spanish set is champion since 2018." ]

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[ "This record represents a fairly radical departure for me in terms of working process. Whereas my last record – Last Night On Earth – was basically the product of a band playing ‘live’ in the studio, Electric Trim took a very different path. This record was constructed by myself and co-producer Raul ‘Refree’ Fernandez of Barcelona, utilizing the studio in quite a different manner. Over the course of a year, from April 2015-May 2016, Raul and I built these songs from my rough acoustic demos. Using the studio as our tool, we layered guitars, drums and sampled sounds and electronic beats, and were excited by what we heard growing up around us. Working without a band, the songs were given room to grow as they each needed. It was a pretty fascinating process. Raul was pushing me and my music into all manner of new territory. It was a good challenge and came at a perfect time.\n\nThe sessions also incorporated the work of many players associated with my recent music. The members of The Dust, Alan Licht, Steve Shelley & Tim Luntzel, all played a hand in these recordings, as well as old friend Nels Cline and more recent friends Kid Millions and Sharon Van Etten, who sings on 6 songs, including a duet with me on 'Last Looks'.\n\nThe studio process was an exciting one –these sessions were some of the most challenging that I have ever been involved with, the most rewarding, and the most FUN as well. Holding up such great studio-crafted records as Pet Sounds and Revolver (for instance) as our models, we sought not to imitate but to be inspired by those sessions to see what we could do ourselves in terms of making maximum creative use of the studio environment. I feel the nine songs on Electric Trim represent my best work to date.\n\nIn addition to a new working process musically, I was interested in challenging myself lyrically as well. I wanted a collaborator, someone to bring in a different point of view, so all of the work – words and music – didn’t necessarily have to spring from my own head. The lyrics for six of the songs on the record were written in collaboration with American author Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan’s participation sent the work in new directions. We established a working process that proved very fruitful, with lyrics sometimes generated quite exclusively by one or the other of us, but just as often by passing sheets back and forth, both contributing, red-lining and rearranging until we were satisfied. It was haphazard in a very good and interesting way.\n\nBoth sides of the process creating this album – the music with Raul and lyrics with Jon – took me in new directions and out of my comfort zone. It was exciting; we didn’t always know what we were doing but we sure were digging what we heard developing.\n\nThe title “Electric Trim” came about by accident, it didn’t really mean anything or relate directly to any of the lyrics but it seemed to fit in some sort of poetic way. LATER, bassist Tim Luntzel informed me that “trim” is often slang for “pussy”! This I did not know. This enriched the phrase – we laughed at first but I liked the idea of Electric Trim even more once I knew that – it combined two very important rock n roll aspects – electricity and sex. The title stuck – and when I saw Richard Prince’s image of the tire tracks left on a country lane it someone implied that same rock n roll and sex to me and maybe a bit of wildness too that I felt fit the music we had created.", null ]

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[ null, "In 2016, the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union elaborated the Declaration of Amsterdam, which agreed on joint goals and joint actions to facilitate the introduction of connected and automated driving on Europe’s roads. Based on these goals, a high-level dialogue between member states was initiated. The forum takes places regularly under the rotating presidency of the member states and should render a joint approach of the EU member states possible. The inaugural meeting took place in February 2017 in Amsterdam, followed by Germany and Sweden in September 2017 and June 2018 respectively.\n\nThis year from 28 – 29 November, Austria will invite experts to discuss current developments in the area of connected and automated driving. ARCADE project coordinator Stephane Dreher will be in Vienna to present the project." ]

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[ "The EU as a Democratic Polity in International Law\n\nOn June 28, 2011 a conference was held about the European Union as a Polity in International Law at the Academy Hall of the Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands. The conference was held at the initiative of Mr. Jaap Hoeksma, Director of Euroknow. This initiative was supported by Dr P. H. Kooijmans, Prof Dr L-J Brinkhorst, Dr W.F. van Eekelen, Dr W.van Gerven and Dr Th. van Boven.", null, "From its inception, the main goal of the European Union and its integration in the legal as well as political systems of the Member states has been faced with conceptual problems regarding the final goal of the establishment of the European Union. The purpose of the conference was to discuss whether the Lisbon Treaty has overcome the problems by constructing the EU as a democratic polity without turning the Union into a state. If so, what are the consequences for the place of the EU as a polity in international law and for its role in international relations? [1].\n\nChairman Professor Steven Blockmans (T.M.C. Asser Instituut The Hague, University of Leuven) welcomed all attendees and gave a short introduction regarding the main themes of the conference.\n\nProfessor Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst (Leiden University, former Minister for European Affairs) opened the conference with a short lecture about the legal status of the EU. Brinkhorst stated that these are difficult times for the EU. The main concern is whether the EU as a polity in international law has achieved enough identity to withstand the “attack on EU governance”. Are we confined to European citizenship or a union of independent states? Will the EU go back to a Westphalian phase of the concept of sovereignty or will we become a ‘United States of Europe’, an EU super state or a union of independent states? What will be the nature of the EU? Brinkhorst stated that the EU needs to create a new framework, one voice. The European Union needs to represent the Member states as a transnational democracy at a global level.\n\nHE Judge Bruno Simma (International Court of Justice, The Hague) held a lecture about the place of the EU in international law. Simma expressed that his passion is in public international law but that he has 30 years of experience in teaching European Union law. Furthermore, Simma mentioned that the concept of the EU is difficult to comprehend. He stated that the EU is a “thing for which lawyers have no name”. According to Simma, the European Court of Justice is mainly responsible for the development of community law. Whereas in the early stages, according to EU jurisprudence, EU law was regarded as a new legal order of international law. Over time, the EU legal system evolved in an autonomous legal system or a lex specialis, separate from international law. The argument of autonomy has served as a basis of hierarchy/superiority of the EU law over national law. This has led to a constitutional basis in national law of the Member states. Judge Simma concluded his lecture stating that there is no need for EU Law to emancipate from International law. To Judge Simma, such an attempt can be considered overkill: “Neither is it possible to totally detach EU Law from international law, they remain connected in many respects, both in positive and negative ways”.\n\nThe academic research of Professor Michael Burgess (University of Kent, UK), is focused on comparative federalism, the European Union, Canadian federalism and constitutional politics and British Constitutional Politics. His lecture was titled “The emergence of the EU from a federal perspective”.In his lecture Professor Burgess emphasized the importance of the Schuman Declaration and the difficult circumstances in which the European Union came into existence. He stated that we know where we’ve been even though we might not where we’re going. Monnet, the founding father of the European Union, was convinced that Europe was to become a federalist union with economic development as its main priority. Professor Burgess also spoke about the legacy of Monnet. He stated that Monnet believed that the institutions that make up the European Union should be built on political trust.According to professor Burgess, the shadow of Monnet is still alive today. With regard to the question of federalism, he concluded that the European Union is a new federal model.\n\nAt the end of the conference all the attendees received a board game, called ‘Eurocracy’, about the EU and a Constitution for the EU. The board game was created by Jaap Hoeksma. The game has been used in the spring of 2005 in preparation for a referendum concerning the constitution for Europe.\n\n[1] The EU as a democratic polity in international law, Asser Institute." ]

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[ null, "Excerpt from Off the Page, by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer:\n\nJust because you’ve picked up this book, you know, doesn’t mean it belongs to you.\n\nQuite a lot went on before you even arrived. There was a spark of an idea one day, which ignited into a fire of imagination. Each lick of flame burned a line of text, spreading from chapter to chapter.\n\nAnd where were you? Probably in some other book, not even aware that this was happening someplace in the universe.\n\nFrom this blaze came smoke, and from that smoke came silhouettes, marching across the pages, each with a voice to be heard. As they spoke, their edges grew sharper and more defined. Their features rose to the surface. And soon they were characters in their own right.\n\nThey picked up the lines that had been laid across the page and carried them on their shoulders, wrapped them around their waists, tugged and twisted, and became the story.\n\nAnd still you weren’t here.\n\nThen one day you reached onto a shelf, and out of all the books in the world, you chose this one.\n\nNow, don’t get me wrong. It’s not as if you’re not important. For the moment you opened this tale, your mind awakened the characters. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As your eyes moved across the pages, as you heard the story in your head, the characters moved for you, spoke for you, felt for you.\n\nSo you see, it’s quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them?\n\nOr perhaps none of the three can exist without the other.\n\nPerhaps without this magical combination, a story would be nothing more than words on a page." ]

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[ "A Japanese fusion with Peruvian cuisine\n\nPeruvian cuisine is continuously evolving. Its cuisine reflects a rich cultural history and diversity based on internal and external migrations in the Peruvian Land.", null, "Nikkei food which is a Japanese influence in Peruvian cuisine is alive and you found it in kitchens and restaurants across Peru and worldwide. Nikkei food helps us to understand and trace what Peruvian food has been, its politics, ingredients, and movements of the people that have shaped it and reinvented traditions in the resulting cuisine.\n\nNikkei is the Japanese word for emigrants and their descendants—which is extremely popular far beyond the small population (less than one percent) of Japanese-Peruvians and represents the Japanese diaspora in Latin America.\n\nOne of the bid examples of Nikkei Food is the “Maki Acevichado” which is a trendy fusion concept, that’s grounded in centuries of culinary history.", null, null, null, "As long as there have been diasporas, chefs and home cooks have had to feed their communities in new places and start using foreign ingredients to make old recipes. Curiously, while Peruvians are increasingly celebrating the influence of the Japanese diaspora, most people in Japan have no idea.\n\nThough there are many more Peruvians of Chinese descent than Japanese, Nikkei is also an established part of Peru’s eating culture. And after Peruvian cuisine has been noted as one of the world’s most important, acclaimed for its fusion dishes that reflect the nation’s multicultural history, the spirit of Nikkei food has been taken into the spotlight. A notable dish such as the Maki Acevichado (octopus with black olive sauce). In fact, it unites two great gastronomic treasures: sushi and ceviche. If sushi is the Japanese food par excellence, we could almost state the same about ceviche in Peru and its relevance among Peruvians. Both have a long history and a great versatility, Nikkei chefs have used both elements to create this exquisite dish.", null, "To better understand, we need to keep in mind that we are talking about a recipe based on the famous California roll, that is, a maki in which the rice takes the outside and the nori -seaweed- goes inside. The important thing is to decide well the ingredients to fill the roll, which is usually some type of shrimp or prawn in tempura, so that it tastes incredible, accompanied by lettuce or another vegetable live avocados. The next touch that makes it unique is a mixture that unites the tiger milk of the ceviche with a bit of mayonnaise, creating a creamy sauce that gives it a distinct flavor and that reflects the fusion between both traditions.\n\nNow, you are challenged to try this fusion and experience along culinary history!\n\nRosakebia Estela Mendoza ( Peru ) is an outstanding young writer and scholar who hold an interdisciplinary academic training in Biological Science, Creative Industries and Higher Education Teaching and Management. Has represented Peru in international events combining the creative power of Art, Science and Humanities. Her poetic work has been recognized locally and internationally , she believes in the power of words and how words can connect people and build peaceful societies. Rosakebia follows activities that involve innovation, creativity and sustainability. She wants to establish viable networks, stimulate collaboration, enhance market access and promote both Japanese and Latin American expertise. Rosakebia’s interested in Arts and Culture, she wants to positionate Latin American Literature in a world scenario ." ]

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[ null, "Fortunately, dogs increasingly have easier access to Spanish beaches. However, once there, not everything is fun, but you have to take many precautions while our friend enjoys this natural environment.\n\nLike humans, dogs can also be victims of jellyfish stings, one of the most frequent dangers on beaches. So from I’m a dog We want to explain what to do if your dog is stung by a jellyfish. You must act fast!\n\nJellyfish are animals from the group of cnidarians with stinging cells called nematocytes. These cells are made up of venom transmitted through stingers or darts when they come into contact with the skin of another animal.\n\nThere are between 350 and 500 species of jellyfish in the world. Some of the most frequently found on the Spanish coasts are:", null, "Factors that aggravate the jellyfish sting in dogs\n\nGiven their curiosity and willingness to play, dogs are easy targets for jellyfish stings. When this happens, the dogs feel the same pain that we do, but they can also be added other factors that exacerbate the consequences :", null, "Symptoms of a jellyfish sting in dogs\n\nSome of the symptoms that can alert us that our dog has been stung by a jellyfish are:", null, "My dog ​​has been stung by a jellyfish. What should I do?\n\nIf this incident unfortunately ruins your beach day, lor ideally, you should go to the vet as soon as possible, especially if the dog presents any of the factors already mentioned that increase the risk of serious consequences, including death.\n\nIf, on the other hand, it is impossible for you to go to the vet at that precise moment, then we leave you a list\nof the steps you must follow to treat a jellyfish sting in dogs. The speed with which you act is vital for the subsequent recovery of the dog.\n\nMind you, jellyfish stings are serious injuries to the dogs that must be treated urgently by the vet Therefore, following these steps is not a substitute for the obligatory visit to the specialist, they will only allow us to save time and calm the pain a little.\n\nThe normal thing is that the symptoms disappear in a few days, although secondary complications such as infections can occur, so we must monitor the affected area and communicate to the veterinaryn any changes that we appreciate both physically and behaviorally.\n\nFinally, we must not forget that, despite the danger, the beach is a fantastic place to have a great time with your best friend with four legs. So, if you are careful and pay attention to the dog, you can both spend a summer day with many benefits." ]

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[ null, "The Golden Knights came out firing against the Avalanche but missed shots and couldn’t find the back of the net. Midway through the 1st period Colorado struck first on a Matt Calvert dart passed Malcolm Subban. The two teams traded power plays, but neither could convert. After twenty minutes, the Avalanche held a 1-0 lead.\n\nThe 2nd period was all Colorado as they expanded their lead to 3-0. Vladislav Kamenev scored 1:37, and Logan O’Connor added a third goal on the powerplay ten minutes later. Vegas’ offense went quiet only producing 4 shots on the net in the middle frame.\n\nIt was more of the same in the 3rd period. The Golden Knights couldn’t string together enough of an attack to threaten Colorado’s goaltender Pavel Francouz. The Avalanche scored one more to make it 4-0. Curtis McKenzie got the Golden Knights on the board in the final 20 seconds. The Golden Knights get back to action on Friday night at the T-Mobile Arena. Vegas will face the LA Kings. Puck drops at 7 p.m.\n\nYour ticket for the: 9/25 Winner of Adam Kutner’s Ticket Giveaway" ]

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[ null, "President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton has warned nations seen as obstacles to U.S. plans for Latin America that they must leave Venezuela and stop defending the socialist government opposed by the Trump administration.\n\nVenezuela’s economic crisis boiled over into a geopolitical flashpoint in January that has polarized world powers, as the U.S. and its allies proclaimed their support for opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s political challenge to President Nicolás Maduro. Responding to Tuesday’s Newsweek article discussing the recent arrival of Russian, Chinese and Iranian planes intended to support Maduro and his government, Bolton told radio host Hugh Hewitt that “President Trump is determined not to see Venezuela fall under the sway of foreign powers.”\n\n“If the Monroe Doctrine fails, if China and Russia, along with Cuba, establish domination over Venezuela, I think American strategic interests will be harmed,” Bolton said. “And as I said at the beginning, the people of Venezuela will be trapped in this dictatorship. We are seeing here the palpable proof of eight years of Obama administration policy mistakes.”\n\nObama’s decisions to reverse decades-long trends in isolating the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and the communist-led island of Cuba were widely welcomed by the international community, but the Trump administration has portrayed them as pandering to traditional foes accused of human rights abuses. The current White House has rolled back both Obama-era efforts and has hardened the U.S. position internationally.\n\nWith the notable exception of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, with which Trump forged a historic bilateral peace effort, the administration has doubled down on efforts to oust unfavorable governments around the world through the use of sanctions and threats of military action. Most recently, Trump warned that “all options are open” in not only deposing Maduro, but in expelling his international allies from the Western Hemisphere as well.\n\n“Look, our objective is a peaceful transition of power to Juan Guaidó and the opposition,” Bolton said during Wednesday’s program. “But let’s not forget we’ve got between 40,000 to 50,000 American citizens in Venezuela.”\n\n“We’ve got countries, as you mentioned, Colombia and Brazil on the border with millions of Venezuelan refugees who have come across. We’ve got terrorist organizations like the ELN [National Liberation Army] and FARC [Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia] who threaten Colombia,” he added. “We’re going to protect American national interest, and Maduro and his cronies ought to know that President Trump is very serious when he says all options are on the table.”\n\nMoscow deployed up to 100 military personnel to Venezuela last month for a “military-technical cooperation” mission reportedly regarding the Russia-built S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system. China joined Russia in also sending humanitarian assistance to Venezuela, but denied media reports suggesting Beijing sent up to 120 troops as well. Iranian officials arrived Tuesday to restart flights to Caracas via the privately owned Mahan Air, which the U.S. sanctioned for allegedly serving the elite Revolutionary Guard, declared a terrorist organization by the Trump administration this week.\n\nThese countries have defended their ongoing dealings with Maduro as part of legitimate bilateral relations not concerning the U.S., which possesses a number of bases across Latin America, including in Colombia, as part of a global military network likely unrivaled by all other nations combined.\n\nThe United Nations also continued to recognize Maduro as Venezuela’s head of state, something Vice President Mike Pence protested Wednesday at a U.N. Security Council meeting. Following his appeal, Pence directly addressed Caracas’ envoy Samuel Moncada—who spent much of Pence’s speech toying with his phone—saying, “With all due respect, Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn’t be here, you should return to Venezuela and tell Nicolás Maduro that his time is up, it’s time for him to go.”" ]

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[ null, "It’s been hailed as one of London’s new tourist attractions, improbable as it may seem. However, if you have a few minutes to spare at the end of a busy day working in London then makes you way to Liverpool Street Station. Spread across an acre of excavated mud, a few hundred yards from one of Britain’s busiest rail terminals lies the former Bedlam burial ground. Archaeologists have started excavating around 3000 skeletons from the new Crossrail station which is currently under construction.\n\nThe skeletons have been exposed for the first time since the 17th century. The Bedlam burial ground was in use from 1569 to at least 1738, spanning the start of the British Empire, the Civil War, the Restoration, Shakespeare’s plays, the Great Fire of London and numerous plague outbreaks.\n\nOriginally founded in 1247, the Bethlehem Hospital – now known as Bedlam - became notorious in later centuries for its grim treatment of what were inoffensive madmen and dangerous maniacs.\n\nCurrently a team of 60 archaeologists are working in shifts, six days a week to remove skeletons and carefully record evidence for what may prove to be, in archaeology terms, London’s most valuable 16th and 17th-century cemetery site. The excavation is being undertaken by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) on behalf of Crossrail. As the pit deepens and the emptying of the cemetery opens up earlier layers more treasures may yet lay in wait.\n\nLater this year the site will close as building work will start on a new underground ticket offices for the Crossrail station so get yourself down to Liverpool Street station pronto. I am told the viewing gallery is open three lunchtimes a week: Wednesday – Friday from 1.00pm – 2.00pm." ]

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[ "Today, NYELJP met nearly sixty clients and supporters at the Kings County Supreme Court for a rehearing on their clients’ Article 78 petition against the", null, "City and Developer iStar Financial. After a rally on the courthouse steps, Executive Director Joel Kupferman, along with Of Counsels Rajiv Jaswa and Seth Korman, argued that the proposed Seaside Park and Community Arts Center, a $50+ million commercial development project just off the boardwalk in west Coney Island, would, among other problems, exacerbate flooding and stormwater issues in the area. Moreover, the project would displace a community that has for years used much of the development space as a public park and garden—land that to this day is listed as a park by the NYC Parks Department." ]

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[ null, "US moves to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela\n\nThe limited changes will allow Chevron Corp to negotiate its licence with the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).\n\nThe United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the US-backed opposition and the government of President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nThe limited changes will allow Chevron Corp to negotiate its licence with the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), but not to drill or export any petroleum of Venezuelan origin, two senior US government officials told The Associated Press late Monday. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the formal announcement had not been made.\n\nAdditionally, Carlos Erik Malpica-Flores — a former high-ranking PDVSA official and nephew of Venezuela’s first lady — will be removed from a list of sanctioned individuals, they said.\n\nThe moves follow goodwill gestures by Maduro after meeting in March with representatives of the administration of President Joe Biden and a recent gathering in Central America between US officials and the main Unitary Platform opposition coalition to discuss a path forward.\n\n“These are things that … the Unitary Platform negotiated and came to us to request that we do in order for them to be able to return to the negotiating table,” one of the officials said.\n\nScores of Venezuelans, including the country’s attorney general and the head of the penitentiary system, and more than 140 entities, among them Venezuela’s Central Bank, will remain sanctioned. The US Department of the Treasury will continue to prohibit transactions with the Venezuelan government and PDVSA within US financial markets.\n\nMaduro himself is under indictment in the US, accused of conspiring “to flood the United States with cocaine” and use the drug trade as a “weapon against America”.\n\nVenezuela’s government suspended talks with the opposition in October after the extradition to the US of a key Maduro ally on money laundering charges. Maduro at the time conditioned his return to the negotiating table on the release from custody of businessman Alex Saab, who was extradited from the African nation of Cape Verde.\n\nThe negotiations took place in Mexico City under the guidance of Norwegian diplomats. The US officials said they expect the dialogue to resume within weeks.\n\nCalifornia-based Chevron is the last major US oil company to do business in Venezuela, where it first invested in the 1920s. Its four joint ventures with PDVSA produced about 200,000 barrels a day in 2019, but the US government ordered it in 2020 to wind down production, and since then, it has only been allowed to carry out essential work on oil wells to preserve its assets and employment levels in Venezuela.\n\nVenezuela sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves, yet its political upheaval and economic decline have pushed more than six million people to migrate in recent years. About three-quarters of those who remain live on less than $1.90 a day, considered the international standard for extreme poverty, and many lack access to clean, running water and electricity.\n\nThe US and other countries withdrew recognition of Maduro after accusing him of rigging his 2018 re-election as president. In his place, they recognised Juan Guaidó, who was head of the then-opposition-dominated congress and remains the leader of the Unitary Platform.\n\nFor the past five years, the US has used punishing financial and personal sanctions, criminal indictments and support for clandestine groups in an unsuccessful campaign to remove Maduro and restore what it sees as Venezuela’s stolen democracy.\n\nBut in March, US officials travelled to Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to meet with Maduro after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended the world order and forced Washington to rethink its national security priorities.\n\nAfter the meeting, Maduro freed two American prisoners and promised to resume negotiations with his opponents.\n\nThe senior US officials said the government will calibrate sanctions based on concrete outcomes at the negotiations and would reimpose them in the event of backsliding in the dialogue process.\n\nMalpica-Flores was once national treasurer and PDVSA’s vice president of finance. He was individually sanctioned in 2017 as the US targeted people associated with Venezuela’s rampant government corruption.\n\nHis aunt, Cilia Flores, is one of the most influential members of Venezuela’s government and a constant presence alongside her husband, President Maduro. Two other nephews of hers are imprisoned in the US on drug conspiracy convictions.\n\nOh ya 84 days ago\nYup slow joe shutting down the keystone pipeline on day one from canada and now sucking Venezuela dick to get more oil. You libtards must be so proud. If you can not see your own government trying to crash the US economy then you dont have at least 2 working brain cells\nView all comments (1)Add comment" ]

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[ null, "President Obama's legally-required but constantly-delayed official budget request to Congress will be on Capitol Hill soon. The Washington Post reports that \"Obama will call for an end to the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency.\" There is much wrong with this worldview.\n\nThe only coherent way in which \"austerity\" has defined much of President Obama's presidency is one in which America faced a once-in-a-generation economic crisis that President Obama himself responded to by massively ramping up federal spending over the course of his first few years in office. That increase in federal spending was combined with below-average tax revenue to create massive budget deficits that everyone, including President Obama, agreed were a problem.\n\nIn accordance with the general principles of Keynesian economics, Barack Obama enacted policies that cut the deficit as we continue to climb back out of the 2008 recession. Now, though, President Obama thinks the deficit is no longer a problem - so it's time to increase it.\n\nIf I were a self-absorbed \"fact checker\" I'd rate this claim half-true. We've largely tamed the medium-term deficit through a mixture of tax hikes and spending cuts. Taming the deficit doesn't mean that it won't be a problem in the future - and indeed, the Congressional Budget Office's newest reports confirm that the deficit should still rate highly on the problems that policymakers should be looking to solve.\n\nThe CBO's long-term budget report finds that the deficit will dip in 2014 and 2015 but then will start rising - and will never stop due to our increasing health and retirement obligations. The CBO reports on why that's bad:\n\nIn the past few years, debt held by the public has been significantly greater relative to GDP than at any time since just after World War II, and under current law it will continue to be quite high by historical standards during the next decade. With debt so large, federal spending on interest payments will increase substantially as interest rates rise to more typical levels. Moreover, because federal borrowing generally reduces national saving, the capital stock and wages will be smaller than if debt was lower. In addition, lawmakers would have less flexibility than they otherwise would to use tax and spending policies to respond to unanticipated challenges. Finally, such a large debt poses a greater risk of precipitating a fiscal crisis, during which investors would lose so much confidence in the government’s ability to manage its budget that the government would be unable to borrow at affordable rates.\n\nIt's absurd that anyone would need to have a refresher on this, but apparently it's needed: more debt is worse than less debt!\n\nThe CBO also confirms what has become even more apparent in the wake of Obamacare: the federal government is becoming less of a traditional government and more of a social insurance state, as more and more spending will go toward health and retirement entitlements, as well as the mere cost of servicing debt:\n\nAs Jonathan Chait points out, as a practical political reality, fighting the rise of our retirement obligations has about a ten-year lag time. It's impractical to change the structure of retirement benefits - both Social Security and Medicare - for current and near-future beneficiaries. We need to get started on reforms now.\n\nPresident Obama may want to put an end to the \"era of austerity,\" but it's an era that he explicitly pushed for through his rhetoric, his desire for tax hikes and his compromises on spending cuts. The medium-term deficit might be under control, but that doesn't mean fighting future deficits should no longer be a priority for policymakers." ]

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[ null, "Something new and a couple of classics.\n\nThe thing about families is that there is often baggage. Even the most seemingly loving family has a few skeletons lurking in the most inaccessible of closets. When a family appears to be dysfunctional, it is often with good reason.\n\nElle Reid (Tomlin) is a once respected poet who has fallen into irrelevance. She has spent the morning breaking up with her much younger lover Olivia (Greer). On the surface, Elle seems to be hard-hearted, even cruel, dismissing Olivia with a “You’re a footnote,” referring to her own partnership of 38 years which ended a year and a half ago when her partner passed away.\n\nIt is an inopportune time for a visitor but one arrives; her granddaughter Sage (Garner) who is desperate and scared. You see, she’s pregnant, wants an abortion and her somewhat irresponsible boyfriend (Wolff), who was supposed to come up with half the money but failed. Now Olivia needs $600 and has just nine hours to get it.\n\nSo Elle pulls off the dust cover off of her 1955 Dodge Royale (which is actually Tomlin’s car by the way) and heads out to find the money for her granddaughter. You see, Elle is broke for the moment; she does have money coming in from a speaking engagement but it won’t arrive for a couple of weeks and the $40 that she has is not nearly enough so it’s off to see some of Elle’s friends, most of whom turn out to be as broke as she is or as unreliable.\n\nAs the money proves to be more elusive than Elle imagined, she is forced to turn to people in her life that she would rather not have to owe, like Carla (Peňa), the bookstore owner who once expressed interest in some of Elle’s first edition feminist literature, like Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. It goes from bad to worse, as she is forced to go hat in hand to her ex-husband (Elliott) whom she unceremoniously dumped when she came out as a lesbian but more terrifying still, the prospect of asking help of the one person she actually is intimidated by – her own daughter Judy (Harden), Sage’s mom who is not only a lawyer but a force of nature.\n\nElle is an acerbic curmudgeon who isn’t easy to get along with, but as we see the layers peeled away we see that like many of that nature there’s a good deal of vulnerability just below the surface. While I’m not sure if the role of Elle was specifically written for Tomlin it may as well have and she comes through, big time. This is a performance that is going to be remembered and I don’t just mean during awards season; she is almost assuredly going to get an Oscar nomination for this but even more importantly this is going to be one of the performances that defines her career (Nashville is the other and yes, this is at that level).\n\nAlthough the focus is primarily on Tomlin as Elle, this is by no means a one woman show. Elliott turns in one of the finest performances of his distinguished career as the tough guy veneer he has worn like a comfortable old Stetson falls away and we see his pain in his one extended scene with Tomlin. Harden, one of the most reliable actresses in Hollywood and a former Oscar nominee herself, does some fine work as well.\n\nGarner must have looked at this cast with wide eyes, but the young actress holds her own. In fact, she thrives. It really is nice to see three actresses of differing generations given such meaty parts to work with in the same film and to have all three hit it out of the park is icing on the cake. Anyone who likes to see terrific acting performances will no doubt be drawn to this movie. This is definitely a film aimed at women although it isn’t exclusively a woman’s film. It does present the point of view of a lifelong feminist however, and that’s a POV that is sadly lacking in Hollywood these days, comparatively speaking. It’s also good to see that in a modern movie as well.\n\nThen there’s the abortion. It is treated very matter-of-factly without much fanfare. It is simply a part of what is happening. Certainly those who are strongly pro-life will likely take issue; as the movie gathers steam in the Oscar sweepstakes I wouldn’t be surprised to see some cries of outrage on the right about “Liberal Hollywood” (cue eye rolling here). I found the movie to be somewhat low-key in its treatment of the subject; the fact is that abortions are legal and young Sage is doing nothing illegal here. This isn’t a movie about abortion, but the subject plays an important role here, and not just Sage’s procedure. I’ll be counting the days until this becomes a cause célèbre but until the protesters show up at the theaters I would strongly urge you check this out, particularly for Tomlin’s performance which is one of the best you’ll see this year.\n\nREASONS TO GO: Lily Effin’ Tomlin. Great cast. Short but bittersweet. Realistic relationships and characters.\nREASONS TO STAY: Occasionally quirky for quirk’s sake. Pro-life sorts may find this offensive.\nFAMILY VALUES: A fair amount of cussing and a bit of drug use.\nTRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is the late Elizabeth Peňa’s final film appearance.\nCRITICAL MASS: As of 9/21/15: Rotten Tomatoes: 92% positive reviews. Metacritic: 78/100.\nCOMPARISON SHOPPING: The Thing About My Folks\nFINAL RATING: 8.5/10\nNEXT: The Transporter Refueled" ]

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[ null, "As part of his commitment to run an all-inclusive participatory government and in the bid to ease the concerns of the citizens, the Governor of the State of Osun, on Tuesday, held a town hall meeting for the people of Ifelodun, Boripe and Odo-Otin federal constituency, addressing issues of education, Agriculture, health and infrastructure.\n\nThe people of Ifelodun-Boripe-Odo Otin federal constituency expressed much delight in the Governor for the interactive session, famously called “Àpérò”, seizing the occasion to express their satisfaction about the improved healthcare system, infrastructural development and payment of salaries of civil servants in the state, while also asking for more. This is even as Governor Adegboyega Oyetola reiterated the administration’s commitment to the general well-being of workers and the entire citizens of the state.\n\nOyetola who fielded questions from citizens on various policies and programmes of government, said full payment of workers’ salaries and other emoluments remained one of the topmost priorities of the administration, adding that this would continue for as long as he remains the Governor of the State.\n\nWhile responding to the question on how the administration had managed to sustain full payment of salaries and pensions in spite of paucity of funds, the Governor maintained that his resolve never to toy with workers’ welfare was informed by the Qur’anic and biblical injunctions that workers’ sweats must not dry off before they are paid their wages.\n\nOyetola who attributed to God his numerous achievements across all sectors including health, works, education, security and agriculture, pledged to continue with the good works for the rest of the tenure.\n\n“Everything we have been doing has been possible with the help of God. We have ensured that we serve you with fear of God and that’s why God has been supporting us. The only thing I can say about finances is that as a government, we are very prudent with our spending. We release money only on things with pressing needs. But then, workers’ salaries and pensions are key while other things can follow,” the Governor stated.\n\nHe explained that Apero had been organised as part of his plan to run an all-inclusive and all participatory government, adding that the programme would be replicated across other federal constituencies of the state.\n\nEarlier in their separate remarks, the Commissioners for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Siji Olamiju, Commissioner for Education, Hon. Folorunso Oladoyin and the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dayo Adewole spoke on the achievements and development plans of the administration through their respective ministries.\n\nThe Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu said the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has raised the bar of quality, qualitative, affordable and functional healthcare delivery since assumption of office.\n\nHe drew the people’s attention to the government’s intervention on PHCs, revitalisation of general hospitals among others. He said the state had sustained the tempo of quality healthcare delivery across all levels.\n\n“Government has also approved the payment of CONMESS and COHNESS to doctors and other health workers,” Isamotu added.\n\nThe Education Commissioner, Oladoyin raised the People’s hope as he disclosed the government’s plan to recruit 2500 teachers across the primary schools in the State.\n\nHe said, “A lot has been achieved in the education sector particularly in ensuring an improved welfare for the teachers. Half of the pension recently paid was given to teachers. Volunteer Inspectors of Education would be launched by the Governor soon. This team comprised the retired teachers and instructors to ensure that discipline is retained in our schools.\n\n“This will also go a long way to improve on the standard of education.Governor is helping the indigent students to pay their WAEC fees to make them feel a sense of belonging. We are building, refurbishing classrooms. We have met and incorporated all Old Students Associations to support us in the development of education as government cannot do it alone.”\n\nThe Commissioner for Agriculture also explained the government’s support for farmers with fertilizer, building of rural roads through O’Ramp, and helping them to obtain loan through the Central Bank.\n\nHe added that over 1800 farmers had been engaged in cassava planting with government targeting 6000 farmers.\n\nMeanwhile, the governor has said that the state government will try its best to ensure that rural posting of teachers is made attractive.\n\nAccording to him, “rural posting is a standard practice which the government isn’t ready to change. However, we would ensure the incentives for teachers posted to rural areas are not denied them to encourage them to stay.” Further, he said that the strategy of community policing will also be deployed in the management of teachers in rural areas, stressing that qualified teachers within certain localities will be employed and retained in their respective communities.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Starting with hammer, Anderson scored 2 in the first end, then forced Liu to a single in the second end who then added a steal in the third end to even the score at 2-2. After a blank end, Liu stole the fifth end, then forced Anderson to a single in the sixth end. After Anderson stole 2 in the seventh end, Liu responded in the eighth end scoring 2 to even the score again at 5-5. Anderson scored 3 in the ninth end, then ran Liu out of stones in the tenth end for the 8-5 win.\n\nAnderson went 3-0 in the 23 team triple knockout qualifying round. In their opening game, Anderson defeated Rhonda Varnes (Edmonton, Alberta) 8-4, won against Walker 5-4 advancing to an A-Quaifier game where they won 7-5 against Mei to advance to the playoff round." ]

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[ null, "Wood Mackenzie forecasts demand in oil market will be back at pre-crisis highs by Q4 2022, while a resurgent Brent price and record upstream profitability are good indicators of the success OPEC+ has had with its strategy to rebalance the market.\n\nFirst, refining margins are above the depths of a year ago but still very low. The recovery has been uneven for refining – gasoline demand has bounced with China and the US leading the way, whereas jet fuel demand globally is still well below pre-crisis levels. Refiners have been forced to blend jet fuel with diesel, increasing its supply, which has pushed the margin down.\n\nNarrowing crude differentials have also put downward pressure on margins. Most of the 6.6 million b/d of crude supply OPEC+ is holding from the market through July is medium sour quality. The lower availability of these crudes has reduced their differentials to Brent, weakening the margins of the sophisticated refiners (mostly in Asia) that use them as feedstock.\n\nWood Mackenzie’s global composite margin averages US$1.8/bbl this year so far, less than half the US$4.25/bbl five-year average. With new refineries in the Middle East and Asia coming online, we don’t expect refining margins to recover further next year.\n\nGlobal capacity utilisation, a key gauge of industry profitability, should average just over 75% this year, up from the low point of 68% in Q2 2020. But we are doubtful the industry will ever get back to the near 80% average of 2015 to 2019 when refiners delivered sustained profitability – at least not without extensive further rationalisation. We believe another 12 to 20 underperforming sites with combined capacity of 2 million to 3 million b/d are under threat of closure across Asia, Europe and North America in the next few years.\n\nThird, refining needs to improve its carbon credentials. Scope 1 and 2 emissions associated with refining operations account for around 5% of the global total of oil and gas-related emissions. These emissions result mainly from the energy-intensive processes of distillation and chemical conversion that are integral to refining along with the production of grey hydrogen.\n\nTo make a big difference, refiners need to introduce carbon capture and storage and electrify operations with clean power. But they can make early gains by improving plant energy efficiency, including cogeneration.\n\nRefining needs to improve its carbon credentials. Scope 1 and 2 emissions associated with refining operations account for around 5% of the global total of oil and gas-related emissions.\n\nDealing with Scope 3, the 60% of emissions from the combustion of oil products, is an altogether tougher challenge. TotalEnergies, Repsol and Eni are among those repurposing refineries to produce biofuels . But the industry’s restrained commitments beyond a handful of companies to reduce Scope 3 emissions reflect differences of opinion as to whether the responsibility lies with producers or consumers.\n\nFourth, electrification of the transportation sector poses a major long-term threat to refining. Much depends on how fast the energy transition plays out. In our base case, which is consistent with a 3-degree pathway, oil demand is robust for at least another decade, climbing gradually to a peak of 108 million b/d in the mid-2030s.\n\nA 2-degree pathway, in contrast, would have profound implications for refining. In the Accelerated Energy Transition 2 °C scenario, aggressive electric vehicle penetration causes global oil demand to decline by 2 million b/d each year after 2023, falling to 35 million b/d in 2050.\n\nIn the AET-2 scenario, multiple sites will close each year. Gasoline-oriented refineries in rapidly electrifying markets, such as the US and Northwest Europe, will find themselves at a disadvantage.\n\nHigh-margin inland North American refineries that currently enjoy a location advantage on both crude and products are particularly vulnerable to EV penetration, as are competitively weak refineries in the Middle East and Asia that currently supply their host governments with fuels subsidised for the consumer.\n\nBy 2050, under AET-2, the refining sector has withered to one-third of its current capacity, with less than 150 of the current 700-plus sites in operation. Only the most competitive assets remain viable, earning margins perhaps US$5/bbl below 2019 levels.\n\nAnd the survivors? Those with the best chances are coastal integrated refinery-petrochemical facilities located in industrial clusters, processing a wide range of feedstocks (crude, biomass and waste) and with low-carbon operations (electrified processes, low-carbon hydrogen and CCS).", null, null, "Mining and metals: an industry at a junction" ]

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[ null, "The dollar rose sharply on Friday, boosted by a strong U.S. jobs report toward its biggest weekly gain in seven weeks. The report showed jobs grew more than expected in July, pushing bond yields higher on the view that the Federal Reserve may act more quickly to tighten U.S. monetary policy.\n\nThe dollar index against major currencies was up as the report on U.S. nonfarm payrolls showed jobs increased by 943,000 in. The news rekindled dollar momentum, grounded in the middle of the week by statements from Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida suggesting that conditions for hiking interest rates might be met as soon as late 2022. Fed officials have said that improving employment is critical to when they begin to pull back further on extra support they provided for the economy during the pandemic. Clarida's remarks lifted Treasury yields after five weeks of declines, while \"real\" yields, excluding inflation, are set to snap a six-week streak of declines resulted, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note touched 1.3%, up from 1.18% on Monday. The Fed is pumping far more money into the U.S. economy and, by diffusion, to the rest of the world than anybody else. When Fed policy makers are confident in U.S. employment gains to raise interest rates, the global economy could be strong enough to bolster riskier currencies instead of the dollar. Strategists showed most predicting a dollar fall over the next year and it’s in the phase in the business cycle where growth and global trade are going to remain relatively solid, and that's going to provide some downside bias for the dollar.\n\nThe euro depreciated below $1.18 on Friday, moving closer to an over three-month low of $1.175 hit in Jul. investors expect that the European Central Bank will remain dovish for some time, after policymakers pledged last month to keep interest rates at record-low levels for even longer in an effort to bring inflation back to its 2% target, while ECB President Christine Lagarde warned about a fresh wave of the corona virus pandemic and its impact on the economic recovery. The updated guidance pushed expectations for an interest rate hike further into the future as the ECB sees inflation below 2% until at least 2023.\n\nThe British pound held above $1.39 on Friday on the back of Bank of England's anticipated hawkish turn. The central bank left monetary policy unchanged on Thursday, raising inflation forecasts for 2021, but said that \"some modest tightening\" of monetary policy over its forecast period was likely to be necessary if the economy continues to improve. Sterling has also been boosted by the British government's decision to lift most social-distancing rules in July amid high vaccination rates. On the economic data front, UK house prices rebounded in July, as a shortage of home on the market helped to soften the impact of a reduced tax break for buyers.\n\nThe Australian dollar rose to $0.74 against the US dollar during the first week of August, its strongest level since mid-July, after the Reserve Bank of Australia surprised markets by sticking with plans to taper its bond buying despite the economic impact of coronavirus lockdowns. Still, concerns over a surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus and signs of slowing economic growth could weigh on sentiment." ]

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[ null, "Recorded in New-York City, except track 1 recorded in Rio De Janeiro.\nAfter the first CD reissue, released in Brazil by BMG, back in 2001, for the RCA 100 Anos de Música series, a second CD reissue was released in France in 2002, on digipack cover, as part of the RCA Victor Gold Series.\nBoth the Brazilian and French CD reissues were produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Photo of Yangshuo taken in 1987\n\nTwenty years ago, I stepped off a tourist boat into what had to be the most beautiful place on earth – Yangshuo, a tiny village along the Li River in the Chinese province of Guangxi. The village represented the perfect vision of China: spectacular karst mountains shooting out of emerald green rice fields, old men on bamboo rafts using trained cormorants to catch fish, and water buffaloes strolling through the streets.\n\nA few years later in 1991, I returned to the village to discover some subtle, yet appealing changes. The food had improved and the locals had set up a small tourist market selling Ching dynasty trinkets and some locally made batiks. A hand full of backpackers enjoyed banana pancakes in make-shift restaurants lining the dusty streets. The town was still perfect.\n\nAnd then life kept me away from paradise for 16 years. I kept thinking about the beautiful village, but what I didn’t know was that it was gone.\n\nSixteen years is a long time. But in the China of the 21st century, it is more like a hundred years. The little village became part of China’s push towards modernization. And apparently, that push leaves no room for restraint.\n\nThe real cormorant fishermen have been replaced with the “cormorant fishing show” for tourists. The streets are full of honking buses and foreign and Chinese tourists bargaining over T-Shirts with Harry Potter, David Beckham and Osama Bin Laden. The once quiet village is now a city with a population of over 300,000 people. It has ATMs, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, tourist resorts, breakfast cafes, discos with dancing girls and laser machines, and chaotic madness.\n\nThe only thing that remains is the stunning landscape defying the apartment complexes and urban sprawl.\n\n2 responses to “Yangshuo Then”" ]

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[ null, "FIRST CLASS PRICE DROP The biggest U.S. airlines missed their chance to lock in the cheapest energy costs in more than 12 years after jet fuel surged as much as 80 percent since January. The fuel on the U.S. Gulf Coast was trading at $1.32 a gallon Thursday, up from […]", null, "Since Google Earth launched in 2005, there have been dozens of mysterious images supposed planes and bunkers, even the face of Jesus captured by the satellites used for the virtual mapping program. But according to Allen Thomson, this one may be the weirdest.Thomson, a former CIA analyst, was recently using […]\n\nThe White House has responded to the petition seeking the deportation of Piers Morgan with a statement from press secretary Jay Carney explaining the First Amendment. The petition, which received well over 100,000 signatures (25,000 are required for a White House response) was led by conservative radio host Alex Jones. […]" ]

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[ null, "Marion Johnson\nIt is a long way from managing a farm in the UK to being a research fellow in Dunedin - but Dr Marion Johnson has led an interesting life.\n\nDr Johnson, who grew up in Zambia, the UK and New Zealand, initially studied agriculture at Massey University.\n\nShe worked as a shepherd around the Wairarapa before shepherding on hill farms in Wales and Scotland. There she observed the Welsh mountain sheep eating herbs and \"shrubby things\" (not ryegrass and clover) and the sheep in Scotland eating the moorland plants. All the stock were very healthy.\n\nAlready inspired by an old shepherd in New Zealand who was always saying \"Put them out on the long acre, they'll sort themselves out\", that got her thinking further.\n\nShe then got \"the most wonderful job\" working as a farm manager, running the largest flock of Charolais in the UK.\n\nThe sheep did well eating a broad diet and won at shows.\n\nFrom there, Dr Johnson came to Otago and, mainly based at AgResearch, gained her PhD on lungworm infections in farmbred deer, followed by postdoctoral study looking for antiparisitic native plants.\n\nNow a research fellow based at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment, her research programme involves translating elements of Te Rongoa (traditional Maori knowledge of medicinal plants) into farm management practices and includes looking for plants from traditional Maori medicine that could be planted on farms and browsed to improve animal health.\n\nShe has been funded for part-time research by Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, a centre of research hosted by the University of Auckland, which conducts research of relevance to Maori communities.\n\nA long list of plants, from cresses to native dandelions and docks along with shrubs and trees, are all known in Maori lore as good tonics, or for aiding recovery from illness, or being generally good to eat. She was also looking at plants that encouraged lactation, along with plants around the yards for wounds and poulticing.\n\nShe was keen to hear about alternative diets or any information about medicinal effects of any plants animals have grazed." ]

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[ null, "The golden retriever befriended the curious whale shark and had a very cute encounter with him. Additionally, the two cuties shared a kiss, which was caught on camera by the human mother. Australian diver Jade Purcell travels by boat with her dog Sailor. But recently, she witnessed an unexpected event when her beloved furry friend encountered marine life for the first time. The couple were boating near Ningaloo Reef in Australia when a 22-meter-long whale shark approached their boat. Seeing the encounter between her dog and the whale shark immediately lifted Jade’s spirits.\n\n“This sailor had never seen a whale shark before. I expected it, but it was much more than I had imagined. I told them several times not to touch it, but no one listened. Sailor sniffed and kissed the shark.” Jade was worried at first, not sure how Sailor would react, but her worries dissipated when she saw her dog gently touching the shark.", null, "“I was so happy,” she explained. To be honest, I was thrilled when we encountered the whale sharks. The animals were wonderful and couldn’t have been nicer. My first concern was whether I was going to be able to jump on the sharks or touch them. When the sharks approached, I knew I had nothing to fear.”", null, "Sailor may be the first dog to kiss a whale shark. Fortunately, Jed was there to capture the incredible moment the two touched.\n\n“It was such an innocent exchange,” Jade says. I felt very special thinking that Sailor might have been the only dog ​​in the world to have kissed a whale shark.”" ]

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[ "Formula 1 teams have been using their radio channel to race control less since messages started being broadcast on the TV world feed, according to FIA race director Michael Masi.\n\nF1 team radio has been a regular part of the TV broadcasts for decades, but a new element was introduced earlier this year when messages between the pitwall and race control were first played.\n\nThe messages proved hugely popular with fans, and have been used at every race since debuting at the Spanish Grand Prix at the start of May, giving an insight into how teams interact with race control.\n\nThe incident led to Bottas receiving a three-place grid penalty for dangerous driving, although Masi later confirmed that it would have been referred to the stewards even without McLaren’s complaint.\n\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff said he found it “highly entertaining how quickly some sporting directors jump on the channel to Masi and come with Armageddon scenarios”, adding: “It’s good that these channels are now opened up so we can all have a laugh.”", null, "Asked by Autosport about Wolff’s comment and if he thought teams were using the channel fairly, Masi revealed that radio traffic has actually decreased since they started to be part of the TV broadcasts.\n\n“I think, to be fair, each sporting team, and it’s no different in F1, will utilise the radio knowing that it’s there,” Masi said.\n\n“It’s been there for many years. Obviously it’s just broadcast now.\n\n“If anything, knowing now that the teams know that it’s broadcast, it’s actually probably reduced the radio traffic in race control.\n\n“From the team’s perspective, [it’s] making them probably think twice before they ask a question.”\n\nWolff himself has previously been subject to a claim from Haas F1 chief Gunther Steiner that he was looking for “a little bit of publicity” when using the FIA radio channel to complain about blue flags in Spain." ]

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[ "Household Income Today Is Lower Than It Was During The Recession", null, "A new Pew poll spearheaded by economist Rakesh Kochhar shows the median American income is now lower than it was during the recession.In 2009, the year the Great Recession ended, the median income of U.S. households had been $52,195 (in 2011 dollars). Thus, in the two years since the end of the recession, median household income has fallen by 4.1%.\n\nThe decrease in household income from 2009 to 2011 almost exactly equaled the decrease in income in the two years of the recession.\n\nHere’s the graph showing how unprecedented this is:", null, "The reason, Kochhar writes, is likely because the full extent of job losses hadn’t peaked during the recession.\n\nThe malaise in income, poverty and wealth in part reflects the weak performance of the U.S. labour market. The share of families with at least one unemployed member nearly doubled during the Great Recession and remains at a high level. In 2007, 6.3% of the nation’s families had at least one unemployed member. That share jumped to 12.0% in 2009 and declined modestly to 11.5% in 2011.\n\nPerhaps most disappointing in the report is the extent of wealth destruction.\n\nOverall, on the basis of some indicators, such as income and poverty, the economic health of American families deteriorated further in the first two years of the recovery from the Great Recession. Other indicators, such as unemployment, showed minimal improvement, if any. Much like an unwelcome dinner guest who does not know when it is time to leave, the Great Recession seems blissfully unaware that it was declared over in June 2009." ]

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[ null, "Oil prices on Monday start with a collapse of 35 – 40% after the OPEC + meeting, which ended last Friday with Russia’s exit from the oil restriction deal, according to trade data.\n\nThe signals came on Friday, with more hopes of finding a way out then.\n\nThe May futures for the ICE Futures Brent crude are trading at $ 33.29 a barrel. The decline is in the order of 35.98%. This is the lowest level reached since January 2016.\n\nOil quotes began to collapse after news broke on March 6 that OPEC + meeting participants failed to agree on a change in deal parameters to restrict or continue oil production.\n\nIn particular, Russia offered to maintain the current terms of the deal, and Saudi Arabia offered an additional restriction on oil production. As a result of the discrepancy, a yield restriction of April 1st will not be for any of the participants in the previous merger. Saudi Arabia, according to the media, plans to increase production and lower oil prices.\n\nThe OPEC + deal, according to Rosneft, was not in Russia’s interest as the quantities included as a mandatory restriction are filled by non-union countries." ]

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[ null, "Championship leader Stoffel Vandoorne says he’s not feeling any more pressure than normal heading into the final events of the 2022 Formula E season.\n\nVandoorne leads the Formula E driver standings by 11 points from Edoardo Mortara, with Mitch Evans a further five points behind as the title race is set to intensify this weekend in London.\n\nWhen asked in an exclusive interview by Total-Motorsport.com whether there is more pressure now with just four races remaining, Vandoorne said: “Not necessarily. We’re under constant pressure in motor racing, whether it’s for the championship or a single race.\n\n“Every weekend you have to perform or you’re expected to perform. So I don’t think it’s not that different.\n\n“Obviously, we’re getting towards the end and all the results now have maybe a bit of a higher stake.\n\n“But from our side, we have just got to keep doing what we’ve been doing – trying to score as many points as possible, be consistent, finish the races and then we’ll see at the end of the season.”\n\nThe Mercedes has arguably been the most consistent car of the season with Vandoorne finishing all but once race in the points and scoring six podiums, which is the joint-most along with Evans.\n\nThe Belgian thinks his car has been very versatile and he’s eager to win the championship in Mercedes‘ final season in Formula E.\n\n“I think we’ve been competitive in both qualifying and races, more or less,” said Vandoorne. “For sure, there’s been weekends where we’ve been maybe a bit better in qualifying and not so good in the race and vice versa.\n\n“I think this weekend qualifying will dictate the race result a lot. I don’t think it matters a lot if you have the pace here because overtaking will just be impossible.”\n\nJaguar and Techeetah on the chase\n\nHaving been slightly less consistent than Vandoorne, Evans and Jean Eric-Vergne have found themselves playing catch up at the last three races.\n\nEvans is 16 points behind and his team principal James Barclay remains optimistic about his driver’s chances.\n\n“No one has a car advantage I would say as such,” said Barclay. “It’s incredibly close. “We’re at the business end of the championship now so it’s a good place to be in, being in the title fight.\n\n“It’s a positive place and we’d rather be there than anywhere else so each race is really critical now.\n\n“For sure there’s an elevated sense of importance, criticality and pressure retrace, but that’s what we do, it’s what we enjoy and to be in a position with a chance to fight for the championship is actually a positive.”\n\nVergne has a points deficit of 27 points to overcome, although there are still 116 points on offer and he is still yet to win a race this season.\n\nTecheetah CEO Mark Preston thinks qualifying at the front will be decisive and didn’t rule out Antonio Felix da Costa‘s chances of winning the title either.\n\n“It’s certainly quite tight, isn’t it!” said Preston. “I always say ‘the best strategy is have the fastest car and lead from the front’ so that’s our target.\n\n“So I think it should be a good weekend all the way down to the wire in Seoul between the top four, and maybe five with Antonio as well.”" ]

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[ null, "Catching up with: Shaun Simpson\n\nEver since his win in Lierop at the final MX1 GP, Shaun Simpson has been on a high.\n\nBut now, after re-joining the HM Plant KTM team for 2014, it seems all the pieces of the puzzle are finally back in place for the friendly but determined Scotsman.\n\nSimpson is clearly very relaxed and comfortable both on and off the bike this year. It has been a long time since Shaun has been this happy in his team surroundings and his on track performances prove he is back to his best. They say a happy rider is a fast rider and Shaun Simpson is pretty happy right now.\n\nHis GP speed has been very impressive and at Landrake Simpson won 2 out of 3 motos after battling with a very fast Jake Nicholls and Kristian Whatley. It was Simpson though who won the overall and took home the red plate – something he doesn’t want to relinquish for the rest of the year.\n\nWe caught up with Shaun at the end of the day for a quick chat about his victory at Landrake, being back with Roger Magee and his speed in the World Championship.\n\nShaun Simpson: Yeah it’s been ok, shame about the first one.\n\nMX Vice: What happened in the first one? I think people where surprised you weren’t closing the gap to the leaders?\n\nShaun Simpson: All credit to Jake and Kristian they are riding good. You seen in the last one I can’t pull away so their pace is good. It was all down to the start today and I got them in the second and third one. We did go for a different set up in the second one, so I am little but disappointed we didn’t make them changes in the first race otherwise I think I might have been able to make it three out of three.\n\nBut no I have had a good day. It’s been stressful actually trying to keep the pace up lap after lap.\n\nMX Vice: It’s different to what you are used to in the GPs…\n\nShaun Simpson: Yeah the short format takes a bit of getting used to. It’s quite hard to keep the pace up, come in, get cleaned up then go back out, three starts – it’s keeping the consistency up as well because a lot can happen in three motos. That’s three starts and three first corners to get through. But we managed to stay out of trouble so I look forward to the next one and trying to keep the red plate.\n\nMX Vice: You didn’t seem to make any big mistakes all day – you were riding solid with consistent laps.\n\nShaun Simpson: We don’t like big mistakes! That’s something I try to avoid, I try and pride myself on being quite a smooth rider and not riding above my limits. That’s the name of the game every time I go out on track, I got solid laps in from the start and showed that my pace is there and my fitness is definitely there.\n\nI am looking for another ten or fifteen minutes – the races are way too short! I would rather do three thirty minute motos than three twenty. But it’s been a good day also for the team to have the red plate in each class. You can’t beat that.\n\nMX Vice: Talking about the team you are back with KTM and Roger Magee. Everything seems to have went flawless, you seem happy and confident and speed wise at the GPs it couldn’t have went any better.\n\nShaun Simpson: Yeah it feels like home. We are given the tools to do the job and sort of left to our own devices which is what I wanted for a long time. There is nobody telling me what to do, when to do it, I make my own program together with my trainer and we have got things dialled in. I am enjoying riding again, I am enjoying coming to the races and that makes a huge difference on track as well if you are feeling confident.\n\nIt’s just nice to be back somewhere where people believe in me and we work together to get the right results rather than fighting against the team the whole time. That’s seems to be what I have been doing for the last few years which is disappointing.\n\nMX Vice: And that conflict is probably in your head even when you are going to the line?\n\nShaun Simpson: Yeah it definitely is. It’s never nice to be fighting the team or asking for an improvement to the bike that you feel will improve your results and it’s hard work to get it – it seems wrong.\n\nMX Vice: That holeshot in Thailand must have felt great, it seems you feel you are back to the level you were a again in 2008.\n\nShaun Simpson: The starts are back where they need to be and I got another two holeshots today which shows the bike is up there with the speed and the engine is good. We still have a few things to work on but I do feel like my speed in good in the GPs too.\n\nTop six is really where I feel I am at there and hopefully keep the red plate in the British. To be British champion and top six in the world would be good but as I said it’s a long year so there is plenty that can happen and I just have to stay out of trouble." ]

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[ null, "Every day this month, Fíontan Cody Hamilton, has been sharing biographies, articles, and history in Slack to honor and celebrate Black achievements and stories. Below is an outline with external links for more information. Please share and amplify these resources with your network!\n\nAlvin Ailey – Ailey began his life in deep poverty during the Depression in Texas. He found himself fascinated with dance from an early age and was able to begin his study of the art in Los Angeles as a teenager. He went on to be one of the most recognizable and respected dancers/choreographers in history, founding the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre and working with thousands of amateur and professional dancers.\n\nBlack Excellence on Broadway – Billy Porter’s video tribute to Black talent on the Broadway stage. “I am a reflection of those who came before me as I inspire to be mirror for those who will come after me.”\n\nThe Black Panther – Created by Marvel’s Stan Lee, Black Panther was the first superhero of African descent. He was introduced in Fantastic Four No. 52 in July of 1966, followed historically by Marvel’s introductions of the characters of Falcon in 1969, Luke Cage in 1972, Blade in 1973, and by the introduction of DC’s first main black superhero character of John Stewart in his role as Green Lantern in 1971.\n\nEartha Kitt – Known for Santa Baby and the role of Catwoman on the Batman series in the late 1960s, Kitt became the target of a CIA investigation after she refused to discuss banalities at a White House tea hosted by Lady Bird Johnson and instead denounced the Vietnam War.\n\nHarlem Renaissance – From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem neighborhood of New York City blossomed into a Black cultural mecca and is considered a “golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.”\n\nJupiter Hammon – Known as the founder of African-American literature, Hammon was enslaved his entire life in New York. Lightly educated, Hammon published his first poem at the age of 50 and his poems about slavery were widely circulated.\n\nThe Humble History of Soul Food – With its origins in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama, soul food was a way to preserve African food traditions using available staples like rice, okra, greens, and pork.\n\n14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About – this article highlights Black inventors and pioneers who have changed the face of public health, safety, computing, and even children’s play with the Super Soaker.\n\nMae Jemison – Jemison is a physician, engineer, professor, and former NASA astronaut and she was the first Black woman to travel in space when she orbited the Earth for eight days on a mission in 1992.\n\n1960 Greensboro sit-ins – a series of non-violent sit-ins from February – July 1960 in the Woolworth store and other areas in Greensboro, NC which resulted in desegregating the Woolworth chain and jump-starting the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (known most commonly as SNCC).\n\nFannie Lou Hamer – Hamer worked closely with SNCC and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferences (SLCC) on voting registration and welfare programs and survived a near-fatal beating in Mississippi by local police. In 1971, she co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus.\n\nMildred and Richard Loving – A married interracial couple, the Lovings were plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Loving v. Virginia, after being criminally charged under a Virginia statute banning mixed-race marriages. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor and struck down the statute and all state laws criminalizing interracial relationships.\n\nThe Black Church – Sometimes referred to as Black Christianity or African-American Christianity, the Black church is “is the faith and body of Christian congregations and denominations in the United States that minister predominantly to African Americans, as well as their collective traditions and members.” This article describes its origins, its influences, and its shaping of and impact on the entirety of the African-American experience in America from coast to coast for centuries.\n\n5 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and Emancipation – A bonus submission for President’s Day, this article describes Lincoln’s evolving views on slavery and emancipation, and reasons and rationale that ultimately led to the timing of and his issuance of The Emancipation Proclamation.\n\nBenjamin Banneker – a free African-American born in 1731 in Baltimore County, MD, Banneker is remembered for his efforts in surveying Washington DC in 1791. He was also an astronomer and contributed to multiple almanacs over several years.\n\nHarriet Tubman – Beyond her heroic work supporting the Underground Railroad, Tubman acted as a soldier and a spy for the Union Army and became the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States.\n\nHiram Rhodes Revels – Revels made history as the first African-American to serve in Congress (1870) in addition to acting as the first president of Alcorn University.\n\nHow a Black Spy Infiltrated the Confederate White House – Born enslaved, Mary Bowser, worked closely with Elizabeth Van Lew to spy on Confederate President Jefferson Davis from within his own home, under the guise of a domestic servant. “Van Lew’s diary entries imply that Bowser’s reports were critical in helping the Union navigate their way towards victory during the war.”\n\nJohn Punch – Considered by some historians to be the “first official slave in the English colonies”, Punch was also believed to be one of the paternal ancestors of the 20th-century American diplomat Ralph Bunche, the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and a twelfth-generation grandfather of President Barack Obama on his mother’s side\n\nThe Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America – The Green Book, first published in 1936 by Hugo Green, served as a guide to help Black Americans travel without fear and highlighted Black-friendly businesses, establishments, and experiences, even as granular as a particular woman’s home in Roswell, New Mexico.\n\nTuskeegee Airmen – The first Black military aviators, the Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 15,000 sorties over two years during WWII. The Airmen helped usher in the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces.\n\nThurgood Marshall – Born in Baltimore in 1908, Marshall argued a record-breaking 32 cases in front of the Supreme Court before being appointed to the Court and serving 24 years as the first Black Justice. He is remembered as being influential in shaping social policy and upholding laws to protect minorities.\n\nWas the Real Lone Ranger a Black Man? – Forced to fight with the Confederacy, Bass Reeves escaped to Indian Territory, learned the customs and languages of the Seminole and Creek tribes, and returned to Arkansas as a free man. He went on to become the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi.\n\n16 Queer Black Trailblazers Who Made History – Black LGBTQ Americans have made immeasurable contributions to all aspects of American life. This article profiles trailblazers from the 20th and 21st century." ]

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[ "Why Soy is NOT a Good Option!\n\nMany who take part in the health industry, or enjoy living a healthy lifestyle also indulge in an array of regular ‘performance and health foods’. However they often end up succumbing to: fatigue, weight gain, a bit of extra roundness around the middle they can’t seem to finally rid themselves of, and then there’s the craving for sweets!\n\nMost of these folks rely heavily on the consumption of soy and soy based products.\n\nWhy would you choose soy products?\n\nMany rightfully avoid cow’s milk because of the truth they’ve come to learn about the dairy industry, or they have a dairy intolerance and use soy as a viable substitute.\n\nThose who wish not to eat factory farmed animals or who choose to adopt a vegan lifestyle, also base their diets largely on soy or whey with soy isolates as their chief source of protein.\n\nThe caveat not disclosed by those producing, marketing and selling soy products is that, while it continues to harm others, these people are the only ones better off.\n\nThe sheer volume of scientific data and empirical evidence on the dangers of soy is enough to fill numerous encyclopedias. However, just like the sugar industry has been going along for more than 10 decades, the soy industry is using all of its marketing powers to get you to believe there’s just no harm in it.\n\nOr, and I shudder to say it, that it’s actually GOOD for you!\n\nIf you are genuinely interested in this subject, I encourage you to explore the resources at the end of this article.\n\nFor now we’ll cover several common beliefs and their actual truths about soy.\n\nBelief: Soy is a food for humans.\n\nTruth: Soy tries to protect itself from consumption!\n\nTo best understand, we’ll need to explore soy from a view point of biological history here. The desire to live is as inherent in plants as it is in us.\n\nIt has been scientifically proven that plants actually produce many chemical agents as protective mechanisms for survival.\n\nAn excellent example is how some plants actually produce caffeine because it is a short-term memory disruptor, thus trying to ensure that any animal consuming the plant will be rendered unable to locate the plant again!\n\nThe evolution of our bodies\n\nWhile there is a large variety of defensive chemicals designed for just such a purpose in plants, over a very long period of evolution, human and animal systems alike have learned how to metabolize or effectively neutralize these chemicals in plant foods that their bodies find suitable.\n\nThe specific chemicals and plants our systems have figured out how to process for our own survival needs has been dictated by environmental exposure.\n\nThe human genome is very slow in its adaptation to new chemicals, proteins or toxins, as demonstrated in research on celiac disease.\n\nIn a paper titled “Cereal Grains: Humanity’s Double-Edged Sword,” a gentleman named Dr. Cordain comprehensively demonstrates how Near East countries, only 10,000 years ago, were the very first to farm grains.\n\nThis quite interestingly correlates to the people of the Near East showing incidence of celiac disease to be absolute lowest.\n\nThe agricultural revolution taking hold only 3000 BC in the North West indicates the highest amount of autoimmune diseases (such as celiac disease) in relation to grain exposure.\n\nOne of the most common reasons that people consume soy is due to milk intolerance and allergy.\n\nIt must be noted here that just as our systems are going through the evolutionary process of adapting to metabolize and digest grains, so too cows have the only systems originally designed with the ability to process cows milk and metabolize its proteins.\n\nIn fact, if we look at the majority of native civilizations (with few exceptions such as the African Massai tribe), once a child finished breast feeding from its mother, milk was no longer consumed.\n\nThis clearly states that we would not be able to adapt to soy very quickly at all, especially with it being composed of complex proteins foreign to the human system. Find out what other dangers there are in Part 2 & Part 3.", null ]

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[ "Even if The Defenders struggled to retain a steady viewership over the summer – analysts deemed it to be the least-watched Marvel/Netflix series yet – those four street-level heroes are all gearing up for another round of standalone stories.\n\nTop of the pile is Jessica Jones, given Melissa Rosenberg and Co. wrapped filming on season 2 a few months ago. Luke Cage is also back on the streets of Harlem, and we’ve already caught a glimpse of Misty Knight’s bionic arm. Meanwhile, Iron Fist, the second pillar of Marvel’s beloved Heroes For Hire, is also in production, what with Finn Jones currently training for another spell as the illustrious Danny Rand.\n\nThat leaves Daredevil (AKA The Man Without Fear), which is seemingly all set to adapt the famous “Born Again” comic book storyline by Frank Miller. Last we checked in on Matt Murdock, he was recovering in some form of orphanage, and has presumably been placed in the care of Sister Maggie. Word is Elektra was the one who pulled Daredevil from the wreckage of Midland Circle, but you can file that one in the rumor cabinet for now.", null, "In terms of more concrete updates, the latest one comes to us from Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Karen Page. In the comics, the “Born Again,” arc sees Murdock’s love interest hit a low as she becomes addicted to heroin and in a moment of weakness, sells Daredevil’s identity – information that eventually finds its way into none other than Kingpin’s possession.\n\nWhether or not the show will follow a similar path, we don’t know, but while chatting with Collider, here’s what Woll said she hopes season 3 explores:\n\n“We’ve been hinting at her past, and I hope that we eventually unwrap that candy. That’s cool to me. Really, my favorite thing to work on with the character is that doggedness and pushiness. Karen is pushy, and I like that. I like it in a female character because I think it’s a quality that we historically have disliked in women. I think it can be a strength, as well as a weakness.\n\nIt can be one of those wonderful, complex aspects of her. She won’t let things go, even if it gets her hurt, or if it gets someone else hurt. She’s out there, she’s gonna get the truth, and she can’t stop thinking about it or let it go, and she never will. That’s a really fun part of her personality to play with.”", null, "How important of a role Karen will have in the new run remains to be seen, as we know that Kingpin’s coming back in a big way and you have to imagine that he’ll be taking most of the spotlight as far as supporting characters go. Still, we hope that the showrunners find a way to dive into Page’s past. After all, there’s much to explore there.\n\nDaredevil season 3 will be available to stream at some point in 2018, and as always, we’ll continue to keep you posted as further updates arise." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, "…Starting with the Griffon on the right. The Barbet needs to look different from a Poodle, a Spanish Water Dog or a Portuguese Water Dog ( which is the one he ressembles the most, there are 3 Porties in the Barbet) to survive, it is too small of a breed in numbers and really has no reason for being… anymore. Being realistic about the whole evolution! I filed a dossier at the French Fondation du Patrimoine in 2013 and was told I had to emphasize its working ability ( meaning hunting), by Pr Bernard Denis, one of our eminences grises at the SCC.\n\nWell, as expected, they thanked me for the dossier and rewarded sheep and goats,\n\n( and rightly so) threatened with extinction. What to do with it? Not much….? Or do any of you from other breeds have any ideas because in ours, there seem to be none other than promoting one’s own dog who is the greatest since the world of dog was created: 1860’s.\nI am continuing, regardless, but I do think we will get nowhere, since the situation for the breed has not changed much in France since 1980 when someone decided to re-incarnate the Barbet de Buffon of 1766 by crossing pseudo Poodletypes and LOF Poodles and leaving aside any SCC/LOF Barbet stock available. He had friends at the SCC who closed their eyes back then. True that the breed is doing much better outside France ( Canada, Scandinavian countries, but for how long?). It is mostly shown ( not used) as a poofed out overgroomed hypertype ( dixit Pr Bernard Denis 2012) to get attention at dogshows, only…and perhaps promote club “spirit” whatever that means in a social club?\n\nAnyway…At least one day, I will have a nice story to tell.\n\nThe Barbet is having tremendous competition, if you can even call it competition, from the Labradoodles, Doodles. Those designer breeds are far more popular than the Barbet will ever be. The French breed club wants ther breed to be a hunter in 2014 and again, even a hundred years ago, hunters preferred English breeds to the Barbet, for obvious reasons (coat care in many cases is horrendous), since it was known for mostly only being a duck dog..the situation today, until it can be proven that it is an all around hunter/gundog as some said it really was, in the past. There are very few who can ” really work” and the VBBFL ( German breed club) has recently changed requirements to be confirmed, by adding a pointing/land/water/bloodtracking test. Unsuccessful test=> no reproduction.\n\nThe only requirement in France ( other than hips and social test) is retrieving a plastic dummy out of water TAN, which not many fail and sometimes it becomes the owner to retrieve it (cqfd 2012). The club has modified the standard several times for diverse reasons and communication with the decision makers is basically impossible since the are mostly promoting the Lagotto ( but we knew that).\n\nThat is is in a nutshell, what is going on in France. Abroad, it’s not much better as the club is mostly run by some Y generation ingenues who haven’t got a clue about the breed except to get CACIBs at shows and make socutesonie litters.\n\nI also forgot a minor detail…the cost of a Barbet: Germany /Sweden( could be more) 1600€. Swissland 2100€. France 1000 to 1200€. Absolutely not gundog prices for dogs who cannot prove much hunting lineage or ability. Who wants to pay those knids of prices for a dog who can prove nothing other than he is the son of his mother?\n\nThe French breed club, repeating again and again that the Barbet must be a hunter, not specifying with who where or what is certainly not worried about history since they apparently don’t know about the history of the breed since the SCC ‘s history, hence the club’s is completely wrong and that seems to worry no one at the waterproof French breed club." ]

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[ null, "Pokémon GO is the game to play, and it’s so popular that Nintendo’s servers can’t keep up with demand. That led to loads of people signing up with their Google ID, promptly followed by loads of people freaking out thinking the game is accessing all of their email, contacts, and documents. The game isn’t really stealing all your data, and the developers said they’re fixing the error that granted Pokémon GO full access to your Google account.\n\nPokémon GO is an iOS and Android game that uses your smartphone’s GPS and camera to hunt down and collect Pokémon characters in the real world. It uses augmented reality (AR) to make characters appear as if they’re really in front of you, and playing gets you outdoors exploring your neighborhood or city as you look for landmarks where power-up points and Pokémon are hiding.\n\nThe game is so popular, however, that Nintendo’s game servers can’t keep up. Players haven’t been able to sign up for Pokémon Trainer Accounts practically since the game launched last week and have been signing in with their Google logins instead. The upside is that they can play the game; the downside is that Pokémon GO granted itself full access to everything in player’s Google account including email, contacts, calendars.\n\nThat’s pretty ominous, and legitimate cause for concern because no game should need that level of access to your Google account. Niantic, the Nintendo subsidiary that developed Pokémon Go, agreed and said full access permissions was supposed to happen, and a fix is on the way.\n\nNiantic said in a statement,\n\nWe recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on iOS erroneously request full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon GO only accesses basically Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email addresses) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected.\n\nOnce we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon GO or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokémon GO’s permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon GO needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves.\n\nThat means Pokémon GO users who signed in with their Google credentials don’t need to take any action to limit the game’s access to their personal data because the permissions change will happen automatically.\n\nIf you’d rather not use your Google ID with the game, it’s easy to revoke Pokémon Go’s permissions from Google’s account security settings Web page. Just select Pokémon GO, then click Remove. You won’t be able to play the game until you grant account access again, or get lucky and can sign up for a Pokémon Trainer Account.\n\nJust because they didn’t do it doesn’t mean that opening the door, even inadvertently, is not a problem. It shows a lack of risk review and mitigation on behalf of the industry that will brush it off as “oh, it’s just a mistake.” In my world, a mistake causes bigger problems than just the potential for the leaking of personal information. Sorry if this sounds overly dramatic but I am sick-and-tired of the “oh, it’s just a mistake” attitude. We don’t allow that from other industries, why is this accepted in the computer industry? This double standard is really getting… Read more »\n\np.s. Apparently the Google issue has been fixed.\n\nThe main issue I’ve seen with Pokémon Go is the large number of kids – and adults – wandering into the street glued to their iPhones and largely unaware of their actual surroundings including other people and vehicles.\n\nThe secondary (less life-threatening) issue is having $99.99 in-app purchases in a game for kids. Apparently Niantic wants to cash in the way Smurfs Village did.\n\nI’m sure people will say “hahaha, Darwin award” and “stupid parents, you didn’t set up your purchase permissions correctly” – perhaps with some justification – but does anyone really think this was a good idea?" ]

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[ null, "As if we weren’t all heartbroken enough, West displayed the Trump signature on the bill. That’s clearly the president’s scrawl, and not the printed “TRUMP” signature Yeezy reportedly used after election day when the rapper was asked to sign merch.\n\nTrump apparently didn’t have anything going on today — outside of hosting his biggest European ally for a state visit — and thanked Kanye for once again publicly embarrassing himself in the name of the president’s creepy nationalist agenda.\n\nIf there’s anyone who can recognize cool, it’s Donald J. Trump." ]

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[ "By buying this product you'll earn up to 277 Rewards points.\n\nIf you want the ability to play background music, page someone, or make announcements in your place of business, Atlas Sound's AA35G mixer amplifier can provide the power and distribution of the audio to your speakers. The AA35G puts out up to 35 watts RMS for a single 8-ohm speaker, like in a gym PA for example, or for multiple transformer-coupled speakers in a 70-volt distributed system throughout the building. Three inputs — one microphone and two stereo pairs — let you play two different sources of music and make announcements.\n\nYou can set the AA35G so the music mutes when the microphone is on or when its button activates the remote trigger. You can also route any combination of inputs to a Zone 2 output for a second set of speakers or for music on hold (MOH) in a telephone system.\n\nThe microphone channel has phantom power available, so you can use a condenser microphone. A preamp output allows the AA35G to work in conjunction with another amplifier or external audio device. The neatly laid-out front panel includes a volume control for each channel, along with bass and treble controls so you can tweak the tone of the final mix. A Peak light indicates signal clipping, so you'll know to ease off the volume in order to maintain clean sound.\n\nSee what our satisfied customers have to say.\n\nResearched by Crutchfield's Russ B.\nThe AtlasIED AA35G replaces these items:\n\nOverview: The Atlas AA35G is a 3 input channel mixer/amplifier designed for distributed business paging and background music systems, small to medium speech privacy systems, and in applications where music on hold plus paging is required. With one balanced microphone/line input and two stereo unbalanced line inputs, the AA35G will accommodate a variety of input sources including paging microphones, cd players, and digital music receivers. A dip switch selectable matrix allows the creation of a Zone 2 mix from any or all of the input sources for music or messaging on hold applications. The amp also provides 70V, 100V, and 8Ω connections, with 35 watts of output power.\n\nInputs: All inputs are located on the rear panel and are as follows:\n\nOutputs: All outputs are located on the rear panel and are as follows:\n\nDIP Switches: The AA35G includes a DIP switch matrix for quick and easy configuration of inputs and outputs. This allows for the following settings:\n\nControls: The front panel controls of the AA35G include:\n\nLED Indicators: A Power indicator lights blue when the unit is powered on. A green LED above each of the Input Level controls lights when the input signal level exceeds -40dBu and flashes brightly if the signal reaches the distortion level. The Master Level section also includes a green signal indicator, which lights when the signal exceeds -40dBu, and a red Clip indicator that will flash brightly if the output signal reaches the distortion level.", null, "A\nThis is to replace a defective unit that we purchased a few years ago so it's an exact replacement. [ Kenneth Jan 28, 2019 ]" ]

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[ "TAHOE CITY, Calif. — North Tahoe Fire Protection District accepted a pair of grants during its September meeting that will be used for a rescue apparatus, extrication equipment and advanced cancer screening for firefighters, the district announced on Monday.\n\nThe North Tahoe Fire Board of Directors approved acceptance of the 2021 Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grant, along with an El Dorado County Transient Occupancy Tax grant which totals $528,673.\n\n“The North Tahoe Fire organization is committed to seek funding from multiple sources in an effort to continually improve our services without passing those costs onto our residents,” said North Tahoe Fire Board Vice President Luke Ragan, who presided over the meeting. “The rescue apparatus is a great asset for responding to rescues across our 37-square mile service area, and the extrication equipment will improve our ability to rescue victims of auto accidents, which can be severe given our alpine environment.\n\n“The real home run for me is funding for the advanced cancer screenings,” Ragan added. “We often think of the bravery of these men and women running into the face of danger to protect total strangers. In reality, we are only just understanding the long-term impacts that these heroes carry with them, not only from the toxins that are released during a fire or other hazmat incident, but the personal protective gear that was designed to protect them. We’re learning now that gear actually exposes firefighters to carcinogens the entire time they are in contact with it – before the gear has ever even been on a fire. It’s bone chilling to think of the exposures these men and women have every time they train, every time they drill, throughout their careers. The health and welfare of our firefighters is our highest priority, and receiving AFG funding for this advanced cancer screening is an absolute blessing.”\n\nThe Galleri multi-cancer early detection test finds more than 50 types of cancer through a simple blood draw, and identifies the organ system that is the source of the cancer with approximately 90% accuracy.\n\nEl Dorado County awarded funds for a squad/quick response rescue apparatus ($350,000) and equipment to upfit it to the advanced life support level ($53,625) for a project total of $403,625. FEMA’s AFG funding, which helps firefighters obtain critically needed equipment to protect the public and emergency personnel, was awarded for extrication equipment ($11,158) and advanced cancer screenings ($113,880) which requires a match of non federal funds for a project total of $125,038.\n\nThis follows a grant awarded by the Truckee Tahoe Airport District for heart monitors and AEDs ($90,905), bringing 100% of NTFPD’s engines to the ALS level, giving firefighters the equipment necessary to provide ALS paramedic level cardiac care in the event the engine arrives on scene before an ambulance.", null ]

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[ null, "Viewers of “Coronation Street” won’t see Shona Ramsey for a while as leaves the show temporarily. The character’s portrayer Julia Goulding is on maternity leave since early in November and has given birth to her son Franklin Wolf Silver last month.\n\nPrior to giving birth, the actress shared a photo of herself with Ben Silver. She said, “Thank you to the lovely couple in the park who took this picture for us: Taken as I was in early labor on my due date.”\n\n“The next day Ben and I welcomed our baby son into the world. Franklin Wolf Silver born on 30/11/19,” she shared.\n\nScenes that are scheduled to air next week will kick off her exit storyline. Viewers know that Shona was left in a coma after getting shot during Derek Milligan’s (Craig Els) rampage on Christmas Day. She will regain her consciousness however, her husband David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) will be informed that his wife needs to be moved to a specialist rehabilitation hospital in Leeds.\n\nDavid promises to visit Shona every day but he’ll first have to explain to Max (Harry McDermott) why he needs to stay a few days at his grandmother Marion Logan’s (Kerry Peers).\n\nPlus, David is set to face another heartbreak once Shona wakes up from her coma. His wife won’t be able to recognize her. Doctors will reveal that Shona has serious memory issues and it could take a year before she shows signs of improvement.\n\nIn a previous interview, Shepherd opened up about the new challenge to David and Shona’s relationship.\n\n“It really upsets him. He can’t understand how this can have happened when they only got married a few weeks ago. How can you forget that?” he said.\n\n“The doctors start to say they’ve done all they can for Shona at this point and she needs more specialist help. David’s adamant he’ll be there every step of the way, he’s not giving up on her,” he continued.\n\n“‘The David/Shona story is very big. The character of David can pretty much sustain any kind of story, whether it be comedy or tragedy, and this is probably slightly more towards the latter category,” he said.\n\nHe promised the story to be “very big” and will last not only in January but it’ll continue until next year.\n\n“The events of Christmas will provide David and Shona with the biggest test of their relationship – and that’s not an exaggeration. If you consider what they have been through already, that is no small statement,” he added." ]

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[ "Submitted by Port of Grays Harbor", null, "American-grown ag products. American-made autos. Biodiesel and liquid bulks. This diverse list of cargoes shipped in record volumes through the Port of Grays Harbor on Washington’s Pacific Coast. Increasing log exports and roll-on/roll-off cargoes combined with short sea shipments from Mexico resulted in 102 ship calls in 2013 to the Port’s marine terminals, a far cry from the 8 ships that called Grays Harbor ten years ago in 2003.\n\nArriving by rail, more than 87,000 Chrysler automobiles were processed for export by Pasha Automotive Services last year, a 23% increase over 2012. Pasha Automotive Services completed construction of their $3.5 million processing facility in August 2013. Pasha Stevedoring and Terminals also handled a record 13,609 metric tons of over-high, over-wide equipment for export. Export logs also hit a 15-year high for a combined total of 52.9 million board feet being shipped by customers Alcan and Dkoram.\n\nDuring its first full year of operation, the AGP Storage and Export Facility saw a record amount of ag products exported through the facility. In 2013, over 1.3 million metric tons of soybeans, soybean meal, beet pulp pellets and DDGS were exported to Pacific Rim markets.\n\nImperium Grays Harbor and Westway Terminals shipped a record amount of liquid bulks through the Port, creating jobs on the docks to complement the steady employment within their respective facilities.\n\nThis diverse shipping activity added up to a 30-year record for longshore activity. Longshore hours worked topped 176,000, an 11% increase over 2012. “We were very excited to see the final activity numbers for 2013,” expressed Port Commission President Stan Pinnick. “Our partners have done an outstanding job bringing business and employment to Grays Harbor and our local longshore workforce does a great job of handling and moving the cargo efficiently. What’s great is the employment doesn’t stop at our docks. Our tug operators, rail workers, truck drivers and industrial service vendors have also seen increases in employment this year.”\n\nWhile the numbers are exciting, Deputy Executive Director Leonard Barnes reminds everyone that the Port’s berth utilization rate is still well below where it could be and there is still plenty of room to grow. “2013 was a great year for all of our shipping partners,” Barnes reported. “Grays Harbor is regaining our position as a major export, and import hub for North America and we have plenty of space and berth availability to meet demand as we continue to grow. We fully expect to see records set again in the years to come. We look forward to more vessel calls and expanding the diversity of cargoes we handle here at the Port of Grays Harbor to help create jobs throughout the community”.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Puritans in the New World tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an “errand into the wilderness.” It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who contended against them. Classics of Puritan expression, like Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, Anne Bradstreet’s poetry, and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation appear alongside texts that are less well known but no less important: confessions of religious experience by lay people, the “diabolical” possession of a young woman, and the testimony of Native Americans who accept Christianity. Hall’s chapter introductions provide a running history of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and alert readers to important scholarship.\n\nAbove all, this is a collection of texts that vividly illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.\n\nDavid D. Hall is Professor of American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. His books include Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England and Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice (Princeton).", null, "\"A welcome anthology through which to understand and teach the New England Puritans. Hall captures the full range of Puritan religious expression and helps the reader understand the complexity of Puritan thought and practice.\"—Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina\n\n\"One cannot imagine a better person to edit an anthology on American Puritanism than David D. Hall. The first comprehensive collection to approach Puritan writing primarily from a historical rather than a literary perspective, this book has, as one would expect, numerous virtues, not least of which is that it emphasizes Puritanism as a lived religion as opposed to a set of doctrines or moral postures.\"—Charles L. Cohen, University of Wisconsin-Madison" ]

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[ "Voters around Mill City are being asked to pass a $17.9 million school bond in the May election. Wochit\n\nVoters in Polk County, Jefferson, Idanha and Detroit were approving tax measures in the early results of Tuesday’s election and the Santiam Canyon school bond levy also appeared to be passing.\n\nThe Polk County public safety tax is passing in early results Tuesday by a 2 to 1 margin.\n\n“It just shows that a lot of the hard work that everyone has put in to rebuilding our system, it’s kind of validated,” Polk County Sheriff Mark Garton said.\n\nThe levy, which would renew current taxes for a five-year period to continue public safety funding and hire one additional staff member, would tax property at 45 cents per $1,000 in assessed value per year and would replace a 2015 levy.", null, "A rendering of what Santiam High School will look like if voters approve a $17.9 million bond. (Photo: Special to the Statesman Journal)\n\nThe Santiam Canyon School District’s $17.9 million school bond is passing by a 5 to 4 margin.\n\n“There’s still the last day’s votes coming in, probably getting into Albany right about now. Whatever ballots were in the bag to Albany are still coming in.”\n\nIf the bond is approved by voters, residents would pay $2.45 per $1,000 of assessed property value, approximately $245 per year for 25 years. The bond would pay to replace its failing building and build a new cafeteria.\n\nThe Santiam Canyon School District is one of the few districts in the Willamette Valley which has yet to pass a bond. The last time the Santiam Canyon district put a bond measure to voters was 2008 when it asked for $14.5 million, but it failed 61 percent to 38 percent.\n\nConstruction of each of the three new classroom buildings for the school is estimated at $2.8 million, and they would be rated for 50 years.Demolition of the current school building is estimated at $750,000.\n\nThe Jefferson Rural Fire District’s operation levy is passing by a 5 to 4 margin.\n\nThe district, which covers 97 square miles in Marion and Linn counties, saw a decrease of $275,000 in property tax revenue in the 2018-2019 fiscal year when Millersburg withdrew from the district.\n\nThe levy would assess 38 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value for five years.\n\nThe measure would raise approximately $1,384,500 over five years, which would be used for improved staffing, replacing an ambulance and water tender, station maintenance and equipment maintenance.\n\nThe Idanha-Detroit Rural Fire District’s five-year operating levy is passing by a 2 to 1 margin.\n\nIf passed, residents will continue to pay 68 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value for a five-year period through 2024.\n\nThe levy is a renewal of a similar levy from 2014 that expires this year. The cost of the new levy is the same as the last one.\n\nThe levy would raise approximately $254,077 over the five years and will continue to fund general operations of the district." ]

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[ "A ranger returning to work in New Zealand has made a gruesome find inside the stomach of a feral cat caught during the lockdown. WARNING: Graphic content.\n\nA feral cat caught in a trap has been found with 17 dead native lizards inside its stomach in New Zealand.\n\nA ranger at the Kaitorete Spit on the nation’s South Island found the feral cat after it was trapped in Canterbury, according to New Zealand outlet Stuff.\n\nIt’s not known how long the cat had been trapped, it’s believed to have occurred some time during the coronavirus lockdown, but the animal was only discovered after restrictions in New Zealand were eased.", null, "Many of the lizards were found still fully intact inside the cat's stomach.\n\nThe cat’s stomach was cut open to see if it had eaten any native animals after it was caught near a known habitat of a protected lizard species.\n\nInside its stomach were 17 dead native skinks, and parts of other lizards.\n\nCats, feral and domestic, terrorise native animals in Australia and New Zealand, which until a few centuries ago, didn’t have them as a predator.\n\nLizards also move slower in colder weather, placing them at particular risk at this time of the year." ]

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[ "Is Litecoin (LTC) a Good Investment? In-depth Analysis and Near to Longer-Term Expectations", null, "Is Litecoin (LTC) a Good Investment? In-depth Analysis and Near to Longer-Term Expectations\n\nInvesting in cryptocurrency is extremely risky, there’s no question about that.\n\nThey are volatile, experimental, highly speculative, and not widely adopted. The crypto space suffers from massive hacks, billion-dollar scams, manipulation, and critical bugs that could take down a crypto network.\n\nThat’s simply the sad truth that none of us want to hear. It’s like the wild west in crypto and it's just going to take time for the space to mature.\n\nTo further emphasize how early we are and how risky crypto investing is, we must understand that crypto can and does lose nearly all of its value from time to time.\n\nFor instance, it’s not out of the ordinary to see 20 percent price swings in a day and crypto’s across the board essentially lose ~85 percent of their value after each all-time high (ATH)\n\nThe image above showcases 9 years of Bitcoin’s price history from 2011 to 2020. As you can see, after each Bitcoin peak, the price retraced ~85%.\n\nIt’s true, from the time Bitcoin finds a bottom and then reaches a top, it’s generally around 2-3 years, and then Bitcoin and every other crypto drops ~85 percent in value until it finds a new bottom.\n\nSo, we’ve established that cryptocurrency investing is incredibly risky and volatile, but if you’re reading this, I’m guessing you invest anyways.\n\nDespite the risks and volatility, there are still incredible opportunities with investing in crypto and it’s quite possible to make life-changing money.\n\nHowever, it’s often best to play it safe and invest in only the best cryptocurrencies. The ones that are most established, most liquid, have a solid backing, an active community, have a purpose, solve a problem, have adoption, and have a vision for the future.\n\nIn the following article, we’ll take a deep dive into Litecoin. We’ll look at its price action, development progress, level of adoption, and the risks and challenges it faces.\n\nBy the time you’re done the reading, you’ll have a fundamental understanding of whether or not Litecoin (LTC) is a good investment.\n\nLitecoin (LTC) launched in crypto’s very early days back in 2011, just 2 years after Bitcoin (BTC). It was created by Charlie Lee, a Google employee and former Engineering Director at Coinbase.\n\nWith these differences, Lee intended Litecoin to be more affordable, faster, and more accessible to the average consumer and thus be thought of as, “the Silver to Bitcoin’s Gold”.\n\nThat being said, Lee’s intentions were never to compete with Bitcoin, but rather to complement Bitcoin.\n\nBoth Bitcoin and Litecoin are open-source, decentralized, and global peer-to-peer (P2P) payment networks that operate without the need for central authorities. They both had goals to become frictionless, borderless, peer-to-peer electronic cash.\n\nHowever, over the years, Bitcoin gained a lot of market share but failed to make any serious developments and improvements.\n\nSome people argue that Bitcoin was hijacked by Blockstream and other entities who wanted to keep Bitcoin slow and expensive so they could develop second layer solutions such as Lightning Network and Liquid and then profit from them.\n\nWhether this is true or not, is up for debate. But the point is that Bitcoin is now too slow and too expensive for most commerce. Most people now see Bitcoin as a store of value or digital gold.\n\nSo where does that leave Litecoin?\n\nHowever, it’s also taken on another role. For some time now, Litecoin has inadvertently been used as a sort of testnet for Bitcoin. This is because Litecoin’s code is derived from the Bitcoin protocol and therefore, the two cryptocurrencies are very similar down to their core.\n\nSo, if developers ever decide they’re actually going to improve Bitcoin and the network can come to a consensus to implement such an improvement, then they can first test it on Litecoin to see how things turn out – (I’ll delve more into this in the “Development Progress” section).\n\nAll in all, that is the gist of what Litecoin is and what its purpose is.\n\nNow that we have an understanding of Litecoin’s background and its purpose, let’s take a look at Litecoins price action and determine if it can be considered a good investment.\n\nThe first thing to look for when making a long-term investment in any particular cryptocurrency is whether or not it's holding above the market structure and/or building a strong market structure.\n\nTo quickly define a market structure, it’s simply the macro price action of an underlying asset.\n\nWhen an asset breaks below and trades below the market structure, it’s a sign of weakness and shows little demand for the underlying asset.\n\nWhen an asset breaks above the market structure or never breaks it in the first place, that’s a sign of strength and resilience and shows demand for the underlying asset.\n\nSo, how does Litecoin (LTC) fair in regards to price action and market structure?", null, "The chart above shows Litecoin’s price history starting from April 28, 2013, on a log scale.\n\nWe all know what happened next… Litecoin cascaded down along with the rest of cryptocurrencies and found its bottom 1 year later on December 14, 2018 at a price of $23.", null, "Now, as Litecoin stands today, it has fallen below its first peak price of $44.53 and is currently trading at $37. However, Litecoin’s strongest market structure is around the $4.00 range, a range which LTC is far away from yet.\n\nThe most critical market structure LTC needs to hold in order to remain a good investment right now is the $23 range. This range is important because it was the low in December 2018, it was support in 2017, and it was resistance in January 2014:", null, "If Litecoin falls below this range highlighted in the image above, then Litecoin could be in big trouble and potentially fall all the way down to $7 - $4.\n\nAll in all, as Litecoin stands today, I would say its price action shows that its a good investment. However, if the price falls to below $23, my stance on Litecoin would change completely.\n\nAs previously mentioned, Litecoin has inadvertently taken on the role as a sort of testnet for Bitcoin.\n\nBy analyzing the development of Litecoin, we can better understand if Litecoin differentiates itself enough to be a good investment or if your money is better off invested in Bitcoin.\n\nSince the very beginning, Litecoin derived its code from a fork of the Bitcoin Core Client and has maintained close ties with its big brother ever since. In fact, all of the development proposals and little improvements that go into Bitcoin are also adopted into Litecoin.\n\nThat being said, Litecoin became the first cryptocurrency to adopt Segregated Witness (SegWit) – a scaling solution developed for Bitcoin – in May 2017. Once SegWit’s implementation was found to be successful in Litecoin, it was integrated into Bitcoin.\n\nAnother big development Litecoin accomplished before Bitcoin had to do with the Lightning Network. During the same year as SegWit, the first Lightning Network transaction was completed through Litecoin, transferring 0.00000001 LTC from Zürich to San Francisco in under one second.\n\nAs for the future development of Litecoin, Lee has stated that he believes fungibility for a cryptocurrency is of vital importance and that Litecoin will begin developing privacy-enabling solutions such as MimbleWimble (MW) and Confidential Transactions (CT).\n\nFor now, fungibility appears to be the priority for Litecoin developers and their core team is working to bring fungibility to Litecoin through MW/CT in the near future. There hasn’t been much news around Litecoin’s progress with this, but I’m betting we’ll see some more developments in 2020.\n\nAll in all, if Litecoin can successfully implement novel privacy features into LTC, then I would become a lot more bullish on Litecoin and more hopeful for Bitcoin. However, that is if such a feature is successful and manages to get implemented into BTC.\n\nAnother important metric for determining whether or not a cryptocurrency is a good investment is to see how well it's being adopted and used.\n\nFor the most part, cryptocurrencies, in general, are not widely adopted and all of the adoption metrics are really quite sad, so just take that into consideration when you see Litecoin’s metrics.\n\nAccording to the Litecoin Foundation, Litecoin is already accepted at over 200 diverse online businesses across the globe. This is actually quite a lot in comparison to most other cryptocurrencies.\n\nThese businesses accepting Litecoin offer products and services ranging from luxury travel and yacht rentals, to gold, silver, and jewelry, to professional and educational services, as well as books, clothing, food, and much more.\n\nNow apart from using Litecoin in commerce, it is also widely adopted among cryptocurrency traders and enthusiasts.\n\nFor instance, Litecoin is available to trade, buy and sell at over 40 major cryptocurrency exchanges and over 13 major over-the-counter (OTC) desks. Also, there are over 17 quality Litecoin wallets including hardware, software, and online wallets for users to store their funds.\n\nAll in all, Litecoin is an established cryptocurrency that has achieved a great level of adoption, that is as far as crypto adoption goes… Therefore, Litecoin can be considered a good investment from its adoption standpoint.\n\nLitecoin is one of the most popular and well-established cryptocurrencies. It has been around since the early days of crypto and has managed to survive multiple bear markets and come back with a vengeance.\n\nLTC is still holding above two major levels of market support and the overall macro price action is looking bullish.\n\nLitecoin has very close ties with Bitcoin and is inadvertently used as a sort of Bitcoin testnet. Therefore, Litecoin is likely to perform well for years to come as long as Bitcoin performs well.\n\nIf Litecoin continues to successfully implement innovative new features in which Bitcoin might one day adopt, then Litecoin should maintain its place alongside Bitcoin as the Silver to Bitcoin’s Gold.\n\nAll in all, I think Litecoin is a good investment considering its reputation, price action, development, and purpose.\n\nWhat do you think about Litecoin (LTC)? Do you think it’s a good investment? Why or why not?", null ]

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[ "Do I Need An Attorney If I Am Accused Of A Misdemeanor Offense?", null, "According to statistics1 compiled by the state of Illinois, there were nearly 250,000 misdemeanor cases filed in 2013. Misdemeanor offenses are those that are punishable by not more than a year in prison and are generally considered less serious offenses. As a result of the perception that a misdemeanor conviction is not a serious matter, many people who accused of these offenses are under the impression that an attorney would be an unnecessary expense and choose to represent themselves. In reality, a misdemeanor conviction can result in significant legal penalties and have a significant impact on your future. As a result, anyone who has been accused of a misdemeanor offense should retain legal counsel as soon as possible.\n\nSome of the potential penalties associated with a misdemeanor offense are detailed below.\n\nProbation – Sometimes, a court will order probation2 instead of imposing jail time upon a defendant. Sometimes, probation has onerous conditions, including submitting to drug and alcohol testing or a prohibition from leaving the state.\n\nJail time – While by definition a misdemeanor offense is only punishable by up to one year in jail, even a relatively short period of incarceration can be extremely emotionally and psychologically difficult and have an disruptive impact on a person’s life.\n\nFortunately, in many cases an experienced criminal defense lawyer can help people who have been accused of crimes avoid these and other consequences associated a misdemeanor offense.\n\nIndividuals who have been accused of any criminal offense should immediately retain legal representation, even for relatively minor crimes. Often, assistance of an attorney can have a significant impact on how favorably the case is resolved. In addition, a lawyer will be able to advise you regarding any collateral consequences of which you may be unaware. To schedule a free consultation with attorney Nenye Uche, call our office today at (888) 251.4428." ]

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[ null, "The Republicans are so desperate to spin their disastrous tax plan that they have resorted to taking comments I recently made completely out of context. Let me set the record straight.\n\nThe Trump-Republican tax plan is one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, 83 percent of the tax benefits in that bill go to the top 1 percent at the end of 10 years and 60 percent of the benefits go to the top one-tenth of 1 percent. On the other hand, by the end of the decade, 92 million middle-class Americans will actually be paying more in taxes, including 8 million in the first year alone. Further, this legislation will result in 13 million people losing their health insurance while substantially raising premiums all across the country. It also raises the deficit by $1.4 trillion, laying the groundwork for House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans to call for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other important programs in the name of ‘deficit reduction.’\n\nInstead of this grossly obscene piece of legislation, let’s pass tax reform that permanently benefits all middle-income and working-class families without giving tax breaks to the top 1 percent. Instead of providing huge tax breaks to the rich and large corporations that explode the deficit, which this bill does, millionaires, billionaires and large, profitable corporations must begin paying their fair share of taxes. Then, among other things, we can permanently double the standard deduction, expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, re-instate the personal exemptions and make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable – without increasing the debt future generations will inherit." ]

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[ null, "LONDON: Geo News has been declared winner in the category of ‘Urdu News Channel of the Year 2018’ at the 5fth annual Asian Viewers Television Awards (AVTA).\n\nTwo other private Pakistani television networks were also in the running for the award but Geo News was declared winner after receiving overwhelming popular support from the voters. AVTA is the only event of its kind to celebrate talent from the UK Asian television industry on annual basis and Rajan Singh, well known Asian media veteran, helms the event.\n\nThe award ceremony took place in Hilton Hotel London and attended by around 300 people, mainly from the mainstream and Asian media industry. The awards are voted by the audiences who choose the top channels, shows and celebrities in their respective categories.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, Baseem Baig thanked followers of Geo News in Pakistani and Asian communities for their loyal support over the years. “The credit goes to the entire team of GEO News for their dedication & unparalleled coverage of news and current affairs in the Pakistani media that wins them such valued awards. Geo News Network is committed to bringing genuine public interest journalism to its viewers and will continue to excel in the profession.”\n\nRajan Singh commented that Geo News is a popular news network. He said: “For us, it’s all about the viewers voting for their favourite channel. The viewers voted for Geo News as the best news channel and Geo News must be doing something really good to win that confidence.”\n\nRajan Singh added that he organises Asian media industry awards every year to highlight the quality of all Asian news channels. “It’s about how good we as a TV industry are doing in the UK. It’s about getting new media professionals exposed to the world to tell them that you are working in a great industry. I feel that we could do a lot more to cover more local content. We are now 4th generation British Asians and while keeping in connection with our culture is important but Asian news channels should cover more local and international stories.”" ]

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[ null, null, "Porr Meebo: More of What You Love Pictures\n\nThe name \"Hotmail\" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in \"-mail\" as it included the letters HTMLthe markup language used to create web pages to emphasize this, the original type casing was \"HoTMaiL\". The limit for free storage was 2 MB. Inhackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password Hotmail Login Live Messenger.\n\nIt was such a simple attack that by the time the patch was made, dozens of newspapers and hundreds of web sites published exact Platanentarn allowing tens of thousands of hackers to run rampant across Hotmail. The exploitable vulnerability exposed millions of accounts to tampering between August 7,and August 31, InJenna Jameson Freeones announced its own mail service, Gmail.\n\nMicrosoft's new email system was announced on November 1,under the codename \"Kahuna\", and a beta version was released to a few thousand testers. Other webmail enthusiasts also wanting to try Pronhun beta version could request an invitation granting access.\n\nAfter a period of beta testingit was officially released to new and existing users in the Netherlands on November 9,as a pilot market. Development of the beta was finished in AprilWindows Live Hotmail was released to new registrations on May 7,as the million MSN Hotmail accounts worldwide gained access to the new system.\n\nThe old MSN Hotmail interface was accessible only by users who registered before the Windows Live Hotmail release date and had not chosen to update Hotmail Login Live Messenger the new service. The roll-out to all existing users was completed in October In it was announced that the service would be updated with focus on improving the speed, increasing the storage space, better user experience and usability features, and that sign-in and email access speeds would Kagney Linn Karter Fetish up to 70 percent faster.\n\nAs a result of user feedback, Hotmail was updated so that scrolling Turkisk Serie for users Hotmail Login Live Messenger have the reading pane turned off.\n\nSupport for Firefox in the upgraded Windows Live Hotmail took a few months to complete. Bysupport for Google Chrome Hotmail Login Live Messenger still incomplete, prompting the Chrome developers to temporarily ship a browser that employed user agent spoofing when making requests to the Windows Live site. The feature was the realization of a project that began as \"Windows Live Web Messenger\" ina replacement for the outdated \"MSN Web Messenger\" service that was first introduced in August It was noted that the original \"Windows Hotmail Login Live Messenger Web Messenger\" featured tabbed conversations Japansksex a \"conversation workspace\", however since its integration with Hotmail this has been removed.\n\nThese include images, maps and business listings. On May 18,Microsoft unveiled the \"Wave Kate Bosworth Sex update of Hotmail, which offered features such as 1-click filters, active views, inbox sweeping, and 10 GB space for photos, Microsoft Office documents, and attachments. The new version began Ariella Ferrera Com gradual release to all Hotmail users on June 15, [35] and was completely rolled out on August 3, ThroughoutMicrosoft added several new features to Hotmail, such as aliases [38] and speed improvements.\n\nExisting Hotmail customers could freely upgrade to the preview version of Outlook. According to Microsoft, the upgrade was deployed on April 3, ; users kept their existing Hotmail accounts and received the option of having an outlook. By MayOutlook. In MayMicrosoft announced it would move the service over to what it described as an Office -based infrastructure.\n\nExisting Outlook. Similar to other major webmail services, Outlook. One example of a feature no longer present is the ability to create custom domain names. In Marchwhen former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo was arrested for his involvement in leaking of Microsoft's trade secrets, Microsoft came under criticism for having accessed the email inbox of his French accomplice.\n\nOutlook also allows for a single-use code to be used instead of a user's password when signing into a Microsoft account.\n\nEach code can only be used once, but one can be requested whenever needed. If a user is signing in on a public computer—such as at the library or school—using a single-use code helps keep account information secure. The single-use code is sent to the user when requested during login. Users can Hotmail Login Live Messenger open attached Office documents within the web browserand save them into their OneDrive.\n\nUsers can also perform edits to any received Office documents, and directly reply to the sender with the edited version of the document. Users can also save emails to OneNote. A preview version of Skype for Outlook. This feature allows users to make a Skype video call within Outlook.\n\nUsers can create additional, unique email addresses, called aliasesHotmail Login Live Messenger their Microsoft account. As of April 17,users can sign in with any alias and create up to 10 aliases per year for a total of up to 10 addresses. Eel Girl Shock an alias is set up, users can choose to have all email sent to that address go to the inbox, or to a different folder.\n\nMail's Active View allows users to interact directly with contents and functionality within their email message. For example, any photo attachments can be previewed directly using Active View. In addition, Mail provides a partner platform which Hotmail Login Live Messenger contents and functionality from various websites and services such as YouTubeFlickrLinkedInand the United States Postal Service to be viewed directly within the email message.\n\nFor example, users may view the YouTube video within Mail when a user receives an email which contains a link to the video. Other Active View Carmela Zumbado Nude include tracking of real time shipping status from United States Postal Service and performing social networking actions on LinkedIn or other social networking sites directly from within the email message.\n\nOne-click filters allow users to filter the inbox or specific folder based on whether or not the email message is unread, from the People service list, group mailing lists, or from a social networking website à la LinkedIn. Categories appear under quick views for ease of access. Outlook's time-management web application was first released Ftvgirls Sophia January 14, as Windows Live Calendar, and was updated to the \"Wave 4\" release on June 7, It was updated with Microsoft's Metro design in a phased roll-out to users from April 2, Calendar features a similar interface to desktop calendar applications such as Windows Calendarand supports iCalendar files for users to import calendar entries into their calendars.\n\nIt uses Ajax technology which enables users to view, add and drag-and-drop calendar events from one date to another without reloading the page, and features daily, weekly, monthly and agenda view modes. It also features a to-do list function for users to keep track of their tasks to be completed. Calendar events are stored online and can be viewed from any location. Multiple calendars can be created and shared, allowing different levels of permissions for each user.\n\nBesides an address book, People also provides integrated services with social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. To Do is task management component of Outlook. Like many free webmail services, Hotmail was often used by spammers for illicit purposes such as junk or chain mailing and unwanted marketing, due to wide availability, service popularity, Hotmail Login Live Messenger ease of registration of new accounts.", null, null, null, null, "The name \"Hotmail\" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in \"-mail\" as it included the letters HTML , the markup language used to create web pages to emphasize this, the original type casing was \"HoTMaiL\". The limit for free storage was 2 MB. In , hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'.", null, "islamtarihikaynaklari.com is a free personal email service from Microsoft that doesn't scan your email for the purpose of serving you ads. Automatically file emails and share photos easily.\n\nCollaborating is easy with Word , PowerPoint , and Excel. You can chat in real time with Skype —right from your inbox. Use Outlook's powerful built-in calendar to keep track of your appointments and schedule meetings with others. We've designed Outlook. Schedule and manage appointments, meetings, or events." ]

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[ null, "PHUKET: The monsoon season has officially arrived in Phuket and is already taking its toll, causing a landslide along a stretch of Patong Hill road that the Highways Department was hoping to shore up by year’s end.\n\nSampawat Wannasangkam of the Patong Municipality Department of Disaster Mitigation and Prevention said his office received a report of the slide at around 9am.\n\nAs an emergency measure his office coordinated with Patong Police in erecting a barricade to alert motorists to the danger.\n\n“We are going to contact the Phuket Highway Office see what step to take next,” he said.\n\nThe slide coincides with the arrival of the southwest monsoon in Phuket. The Meteorological Department’s Southern Meteorological Center at Phuket Airport used the word “monsoon” for the first time this year in its synoptic report for the Andaman Coast region issued at 4am today.\n\nThe arrival of the monsoon was heralded with strong wind gust that were felt across the island yesterday, especially along the west coast. Wind driven waves offshore caused difficulty to several recreational dive boats, though no injuries were reported.\n\nThe 24-hour forecast for Phuket calls for cloudy conditions with widespread thundershowers covering 80 per cent of the province and isolated heavy rain with gusts and southwesterly winds of 15kmh to 40kmh.\n\nShip captains, crews and passengers are advised to proceed with caution as wave heights could reach three meters offshore.\n\nMost of Thailand could experience heavy rains today. The Meteorological Department issued a “heavy rain and flash flood warning” at 5:30am today. It read:\n\n“Active southwesterly winds prevails over Thailand and a low pressure cell over the Mataban Gulf [off the southeast Myanmar peninsula] will cover the western portion of Thailand. More rainfall occurs with very heavy [amounts] in some place in the North, Central, the East and the Southwest Coast. People in the areas should beware of heavy rain and flash floods. All ships in the upper Gulf and the Andaman Sea should proceed with caution during 5-9 May 2012.”" ]

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[ null, "Hello again everyone! How is everything in your little corner of the world? As I have written before, grab a beverage and let’s sit and chat for a spell. This may be a tad bit long.\n\nThis morning as I walked out on my deck I could feel a bit of fall in the stillness of the morning. It is always so peaceful to look out over the park and see the lowhanging fog.\n\nAs some of you know already that I was able to attend the Osborne Brothers Homecoming Festival. This makes 25 years the festival has been going on.\n\nThanks to those who watched WYMT weather report. I have one question, are you sure your television is working properly? I was picked randomly to do the weather, but I really didn’t take it seriously. You might not have seen me.\n\nI’ve only had the pleasure of attending this wonderful festival one time before. Before I go any further, a word of thanks to Dean Osborne for all his hard work, sleepless nights, and the endless days he devotes to a simple word called music. I met Dean Osborne about 20 ago. He left a great impression on me, as he was such a kind person. I still feel the same way. Dean hasn’t let the name or the fame change him down through the years.\n\nEastern Kentucky is very fortunate to have a festival that you can spend $15, and get three days of great music. This year was an exception as they added another evening, Wednesday, to the schedule, which I wasn’t able to attend.\n\nOnce again I turned into a Hippie Camping Granny as I packed my car complete with a bed that was more comfortable than some beds in motels. Thursday afternoon, I parked my car and never moved out of the parking place until Sunday morning when I was ready to head back home. I was close to the music area, bathrooms and everything I needed. I took water, a pail to sponge bath in, plenty of yogurt, pudding, crackers and peanut butter. I even lived dangerously and picked up a bag of cheese curls. I did get an order of the best potato wedges that I think I have ever eaten from the fire department that was selling food.\n\nLarry Efaw & The Bluegrass Mountaineers performed two times on Thursday. It has been about six years since I’ve seen this band. For those of you who want strictly bluegrass music, check this band’s website. It was wonderful to see and hear Larry and the band again. I was invited to have supper with Larry and his wife Lisa on their bus. I declined as I explained the reason.\n\nNow it must have really thrilled Larry Efaw seeing me again, as he must have gotten so excited he laid his mandolin down on the gazebo behind the stage and forgot to pick it up. He was very fortunate as John Rigsby, another great musician, found it and called Larry, who was on his way to Michigan to do another show. Larry told him to see if Charlie Hall, who performs with Southland Band, also a DJ out of Lexington, would get it and keep it until Larry’s daughter could bring it to him. I told Larry I would have gladly brought the mandolin to him.\n\nThursday night my niece, Sue Hall, along with her three nieces, Hannah, Kaya, and Izzy, joined me. Kaya and Izzy are three and five years old, and these little girls loved the music. I kept looking for Sue in the crowd as it was getting late, and as it turned out, Sue found me dancing to a good tune that Larry and the band played. I slipped off my socks and gym shoes and danced barefoot.\n\nThe music was great all three days. I saw several bands I’ve never seen before. Again, thanks to Dean Osborne for taking interest in young people.\n\nOf course there was one special band I was looking forward to seeing, none other than Sunrise Ridge. Sunrise Ridge did a super job, although that was no surprise. I hope next year they are booked once again, and if God is willing, I will be there again.\n\nFlo, thanks for joining me for a dance, and I am sorry I couldn’t finish the dance. When my heart starts beating 90 miles an hour and I am feeling pulsating in my lungs, it is time I sit myself down.\n\nSaturday afternoon the Crossroads Band performed. There are a few members that I have known for about 20 years, and haven’t danced under them in quite a few years. Gene Thompson, Jeff Campbell, and Tweed Donahue are from northern Kentucky, and special guest Danny Davis is from Fairborn, Ohio.\n\nNeedless to say, when I saw Tweed Donahue turn around, I knew he was getting ready to pick claw hammer style. You better believe socks and gym shoes came off and my feet were saying hurry get your flats on. I didn’t care that I was the only one dancing, I waited just a little while as I know Rocky Island is a long strenuous dance tune.\n\nFor a few minutes I was in a world of my own. After the show I talked to Gene Thompson for a few minutes, and Gene told me it was so good to see me dancing. I laughed and said that being 73 years old, Gene shared his age with me. So I told Gene to keep picking and I would try to dance.\n\nMy feet don’t move as fast as they used to, but my brain says you can do it. My body says, who do you think you are fooling?\n\nI will mention again, there are a few that are skeptical of hearing me talk about camping in my car at a bluegrass festival. In 1999, I bought a new Chevy Cavalier and it was my first experience of camping in my car with the seats laid down flat. I would put comforts in to pad it then sheets and a pillow, and pack a cooler with everything I need, and away I would go.\n\nThen I was lucky enough to buy a van, which was lots more comfortable. I really don’t like this 2018 Hyundai, but the back seats fold down. I bought a DVD player which serves as a device to play my bluegrass music on, since the car has no CD player. I also took a couple of movies, which I enjoyed after the shows.\n\nSaturday night I started feeling bad, so after Bobby Osborne’s show I decided to go to my car to rest and watch a movie. Somehow I lost my car keys. Earlier that afternoon I switched bags, to a smaller one. Needless to say, I panicked. Meantime a three-wheeled motorcycle stopped directly behind my car. While searching for my keys I became a little uneasy at the driver was just sitting there.\n\nAs I passed the cycle, I said, “Wish me luck, as I have lost my car keys.” The man replied, “What did you say?” I repeated myself and he said he had just found a set of keys and turned them in to Dean Osborne. I said please tell me they had a blue plastic loop and he replied, “Yes, Mam.”\n\nI got cold chills up and down my arms and back. What was the chance of a stranger on a motorcycle parking directly behind my car, when the parking lot was filled with vehicles? Why mine?\n\nI went to find Dean and recover my keys. Dean had announced on the speaker that someone had turned in a set of keys, and the only identification was a blue tag that had Superior Hyundai from Fairfield, Ohio. I didn’t hear the announcement, as I had stopped at the bathroom on my way to the car.\n\nThanks to whoever the stranger was who turned my keys. Thanks to Dean Osborne. The only thing is I knew I had an extra set, which I had removed from my purse, and they were here at home. It wouldn’t have done me any good to call a locksmith, except it would have given me a place to sleep.\n\nI was thinking that my son Keith Ballard would have to drive to Hyden to bring my keys to me. I completely forgot that Sue Hall was in Dayton, and I know she would have been more than willing to bring my extra set of keys to me.\n\nAgain, I ponder the reason the stranger found my keys, and why he chose to park directly behind me.\n\nJohnny and Ann Flo, I am sorry I couldn’t finish the dance, but when my heart starts beating 90 miles an hour and I am feeling pulsating in my lungs, it is time I sit myself down.\n\nThe twin preemies are doing wonderful. Their daughter Sue Wagner is back home in South Carolina for a few days, and then she will be back to her parents’ this week for more doctor appointments.\n\nJohnny and Ann’s daughter Carol had surgery on her foot. Carol was in the hospital and had the surgery before she told Ann and Johnny about it.\n\nLes and Pat Wagner are doing all right, Pat isn’t moving mountains but she is still improving.\n\nIke Adams, as I passed Berea and surrounding areas, I thought of you and Loretta. Of course I didn’t have your address with me, or I might have showed up at your door. Your garden is so beautiful.\n\nI am very sad to know the Whitesburg Motel has closed, as this had become a second home to me since the passing of my brothers. Maybe someone will buy it and open it again.\n\nCody, thanks for all your help. I will miss everyone that was so nice to deal with.\n\nI’ve been invited to stay with different ones, but I had rather be by myself. At least I do have another option, so I am looking forward to Blackey Days in October.\n\nThis was written many years ago: To a square dance in the mountains I’m longing to go, to hear a fiddle tune called Cotton Eyed Joe. As you hear instruction, bow to your partner, shake your corners, hand. You go around the circle in a right and left grand. All the calls, I don’t remember, a few I do recall. As you are spun around you get dizzy, hoping not to fall. You go around a couple, take a little peek, back in the center and swing your sweet, something about a birdie in a cage, the rest I don’t know, except when the bird hops out, in goes the crow. Then you promenade around and there’s a do si do. Oh yes to a square dance in the mountains, I’m longing to go. An old-time square dance is so much fun, you are filled with excitement when the dance is done. R. Ballard 8/6/2014." ]

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[ null, "image credit\nDustin Hoffman by Georges Biard, is licensed under cc-by-sa-3.0, resized from the original.\nDustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award.\nbirthtime credit:\nRodden / Accuracy: excellent\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Gotta love Batman. Amazing skills. Cool tools. Resolute commitment. Nice. But, what good would all that be were there no Riddler, Joker, or, more recently, no Bane.\n\nIt doesn’t take a hero to make a villain. Quite the contrary. Heroes rise in their conquest of a villain. This good-vs-evil juju makes for great direct response ads.\n\nThere can be no drama without struggle. But, drama alone merely animates your ad. A villain adds focus by giving the struggle purpose. Victory defined draws broader interest.\n\nBaseball is sublime drama from March to September. But, 2,430 games is more than most can focus upon. In October, though, when it’s the best of seven between two remaining teams, there’s one you root for and one you root against. A hero. A villain. Mass appeal.\n\nSame goes for Team USA Soccer. They practiced and played for years. But, we didn’t care until they were pitted against clearly drawn villains; teams seeking to deny them The World Cup. Waffle House brilliantly leveraged the moment and became a Twitter trending topic by tweeting “We don’t believe in Belgium Waffles.”\n\nWeak-kneed direct response ads deliver only struggle without clearly defining the villain. That omission robs ads of purpose. Struggle is just an uphill climb. The villain creates a summit, a goal, a purpose.\n\nSuppose we were creating an ad for a weight-loss product. Anyone sporting extra pounds would like to lose the weight. Just providing a way to do so may be interesting. But, transform fat into the villain robbing you of health, sex and shortening your life, and you’ve identified a foe to be defeated thanks to your product’s superpowers.\n\nHitler: our ally in victory?\n\nEvil has an upside when it comes to persuasion. No, you don’t have to cross over to the dark side to become more successful. Quite the contrary.", null, "While our troops waged war in Europe during World War II, Americans at home were asked to conserve resources to fuel the fight. But, how do you promote selfless sacrifice? Get a villain to help.\n\nBe a direct response ad superhero\n\nThe power of effective direct response ads is not found in a clever turn of phrase. Look instead at the other end of the lever: the worse your villain, the more value customers find in the special powers needed to overcome him.\n\nCreating persuasive direct response ads is less about amping up features and benefits, than it is about crafting a villain only your product can defeat. Cape, mask and costume optional." ]

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[ null, "The flight departure had been delayed while the flight crew gathered additional information on the forecast weather conditions at Pegasus Field. The Boeing 757 aircraft did not have sufficient fuel capacity to complete the return trip without refuelling at Pegasus Field.\n\nA point of safe return had been pre-calculated. The aeroplane would only continue past this point if the weather conditions at Pegasus Field met certain criteria that would allow the aeroplane to land safely; otherwise it would return to Christchurch.\n\nThe crew received regular and additional weather observations and forecasts from staff at the United States Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's Office of Polar Programs facilities at McMurdo and in Charleston, USA. Weather observers at Pegasus Field were noting the existence of a fog bank about five kilometres from the runway. The crew received assurances from the forecasters that the weather was forecast to improve. Based on these assurances and using the crew members' collective experience, both recent and from previous seasons, the crew made the decision to continue past the point of safe return towards Pegasus Field. About 20 minutes thereafter, the crew received the first of several weather observations that conditions had deteriorated and that a fog bank had enveloped the runway and its approaches.\n\nWith insufficient fuel on board to return to Christchurch, the crew was committed to continuing to Pegasus Field. There was no other safe alternative aerodrome in Antarctica where the aeroplane could land. The crew made two attempts to land at Pegasus Field but the restricted visibility prevented them gaining the required visual reference with the runway markings and lights. After the first attempt the crew decided to hold to see if the weather would start to clear. After holding for nearly two hours with no improvement in the conditions, the crew decided to make a second approach using a lower \"minimum descent altitude\" than the published minima in an attempt to increase the chance of becoming visual with the runway. A member of the flight crew caught a glimpse of runway markings just as the approach was aborted and a missed approach procedure was initiated (a \"go-around\").\n\nWith dwindling fuel reserves and conditions deteriorating the crew elected to make a third attempt at landing. They again used the lower \"minimum descent altitude\". When the aeroplane reached about 110 feet above the runway , the crew saw the runway approach lights and markings and was able to make a successful landing in near-whiteout conditions. There was no damage to the aeroplane and no-one was injured.\n\nThe Commission found that the observed and forecast weather conditions as reported to the crew met the criteria for the crew to continue past the point of safe return. It also found that, given no safe alternative, the actions of the crew in proceeding below the allowable minima for the aerodrome were appropriate, and that the crew had taken all reasonable precautions to mitigate the risks involved in doing so.\n\nHowever, the Commission found that the risk assessment undertaken when considering the suitability of the Boeing 757 aircraft type for Antarctic operations had not adequately taken into consideration five key points:\n- the potential consequences of the weather deteriorating were elevated for the Boeing 757 aircraft because of the lack of alternative approach procedures and aerodromes suitable for the aircraft type\n- the weather criteria for an aeroplane passing the point of safe return should consider the presence of low cloud and fog below the main cloud base as a limiting factor\n- there is an increased likelihood of weather conditions deteriorating below minima early in the summer season\n- the accuracy of instrument approaches should be treated with caution prior to re-calibration flights being conducted early in the summer season\n- the Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing aircraft is capable of completing only one type of instrument approach in Antarctica.\n\nThe Commission recommended that the Chief of Air Force review the risk assessment for using the Boeing 757 aircraft for Antarctic flight operations, taking into account these matters and any other matters not considered during the initial risk assessment.\n\nThe key lessons learnt from the inquiry into this occurrence were:\n- Effective crew resource management enables a crew to perform as a cohesive unit and provides the best opportunity for a safe outcome. This incident demonstrates how a properly trained crew was able to function effectively in demanding circumstances and make a safe landing.\n- An essential element of risk management is the continuous review of the relevance of the original assessment and its context, hazards and mitigations. This is especially important when there are changes in the circumstances or conditions of the assessment to ensure that it remains valid and provides the appropriate level of safety.\nRelated Safety Recommendation(s)\n024/14\nLocation\nAntarctica (-77.966700,166.516700) [may be approximate]" ]

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[ null, "Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia suffered a business-ending hack earlier this year when cybercriminals looted the firm of more than $16 million worth of Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens.\n\nThe hack continued for several days after the breach was discovered as it appears Cryptopia lost access to wallets. Part of the stolen funds that were transferred to Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by volume, has been frozen. It is still unknown how the exploit was carried out, or by whom, as the investigation by New Zealand police and international authorities continues.\n\nWhen the hack was discovered the Company closed the exchange for trading. The Company then decided to reopen the exchange for the trade of certain crypto-assets in March 2019 and continued to trade through to the date of Liquidation. However, trade volumes were insufficient for the Company to meet its debts as they fell due and it was decided the appointment of liquidators was in the best interests of customers, staff and other stakeholders.\n\nA report by Cryptopia’s liquidator, Grant Thornton, Cryptopia still owes its creditors a total of $4.22 million. According to a leaked email from Grant Thornton originally dated Sept. 23, its executives planned to conduct an online meeting with the developers on Oct. 7.\n\n“Given the scale, complexity and unique nature of the Cryptopia situation it is desirable to develop a collaborative relationship with the developer community.”\n\nThe auction includes a lot of things including\n\n“over 800 lots of near new laptop and desktop PC’s some new in boxes, server racks and associated infrastructure [..] and much more!”\n\nThe items are available for sale in New Zealand’s largest internet auction site—Trade Me.\n\nVectraCoin – a New Altcoin That Will Definitely Go “to the Moon!”" ]

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[ null, "KUWAIT CITY, Dec 10: A Kuwaiti woman who has been longing to see her Filipina mother sought the help of the Philippine Embassy and the local media to help her find her mother whom she has not seen for 16 years now.\n\nThe only remembrance that she has of her Filipina mother was a photo and her photo when she was only eight months. Fatima remembered her mother’s name as Evangeline D Reginaldo. Fatima could not hold back her tears as she recounted her story to the Arab Times.\n\nFatima narrated that for several years, her father made her believe that her mother had died. Her father only revealed the truth to her when she was 17. When her father passed away in 2011, Fatima decided to search for her mother. “Now I have a son, so I am feeling like if I lose my son, I will go crazy. So how about the feeling of my mother? I am thinking about her—me, as a mother. She is searching for me. She is missing me plus I am missing her. I miss her from the beginning. All my friends they have mothers. I didn’t see her, I didn’t feel the love of a mother,” stated Fatima.\n\nFatima cannot contain her emotions as she longs to see her mother. “Nanay Evangeline, I need to see you again. I will do anything to come to you and see you. Explain to me what happened and why all that time, you’re far from me. I miss you a lot. I need you in my life again,” she cried.\n\nFatima has been saving up for the great reunion with her mother and she will immediately fly to Manila once her mother is located. “I don’t know what to tell her. But you know, my whole life I didn’t have a mother so I think I will hug her only. I will not say anything.\n\nOnly, I will start to kiss her and hug her. That’s all. I don’t know what to say. I am missing her,” she shared. Fatima appealed to the embassy and to the local media to help her find her mother.\n\nThe embassy vowed to extend all the possible assistance to her. “She shall have our support in terms of looking for her mother, so she can find her. We will search for her mother all over the Philippines using our offices in the DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs). It’s a very heartwarming story. We are so inspired to see someone who sees the Philippines as her home and that makes us proud of our country,” said Philippine Charge d’ Affaires Atty Raul H Dado.\n\nUPDATE: She has since found and spoke with her mother- story link\nPosted by Crazy in Kuwait" ]

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[ null, "Yesterday Apple announced its latest financial results, the company has a record Q4 and also announced record iPhone sales for the quarter of 48 million iPhones.\n\nAs well as announcing record iPhone sales, Apple also revealed that around 30% of those iPhones were bought by people who switched from Google’s Android platform.\n\nThat means that 14.4 million Android device users switched to Apple’s iPhone in Q4, Apple said that this is the highest to date since they started tracking this about three years ago.\n\nIt will be interesting to see if Apple is able to increase the amount of people who are switching from Google’s Android platform to Apple’s iOS platform in the next financial quarter." ]

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[ null, "Electric vehicles users in Dubai will continue to be able to charge their vehicles for free for two more years.\n\nThe Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that its initiative to offer free charging for electric vehicles – due to expire by the end of this year – will now be extended until the December 31, 2021.\n\nThe extension only applies to non-commercial users, who register for the EV Green Charger initiative, DEWA clarified.\n\nCommercial registered users such as government, semi-government, and private organisations will be charged the tariff of 29 fils per kilowatt hour, effective from January 1, 2020.\n\nDEWA has been providing free charging for electric vehicle users registered in the EV Green Charger initiative from September 1, 2017 to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Dubai.\n\n“Since DEWA launched the EV Green Charger initiative in 2015 and its associated free charging incentive, there has been a significant increase in the number of electric and hybrid vehicles in Dubai,” said Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA.\n\n“Due to the positive response, we decided to extend the free charging incentive for the owners of non-commercial electric vehicles until December 31, 2021. The huge turnout from the community encourages us to launch further initiatives.”\n\nHe added: “DEWA seeks to increase the number of hybrid and electric vehicles in Dubai, which supports the Dubai Green Mobility strategy 2030 and the Dubai Carbon Abatement strategy 2021 to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.”\n\nThe Dubai Supreme Council of Energy launched the Green Mobility initiative in 2016 to motivate organisations, under its umbrella, to increase the number of hybrid and electric vehicles, and to reduce carbon emissions in ground transport – the second-largest greenhouse gas emitter in Dubai.\n\nAs part of the initiative, at least 10 per cent of all newly-purchased cars will be electric or hybrid from 2016 to 2020.\n\nMeanwhile the Dubai Carbon Abatement strategy aims to cut carbon emissions by 16 per cent by 2021." ]

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[ null, "When it comes to the world of dancehall selectors in the Corporate Area, the name Fire K Venom stands out.\n\nBorn Triston Riley, he grew up in Marlie Mount, St Catherine, with five siblings before moving to Red Ground in the parish as a teenager.\n\nGrowing up in the area, he fell in love with the sound-system culture. He graduated from Tacius Golding High School, Brown's Hall, and went on to HEART to learn a skill, but it was music that was his first love.\n\nHe inherited his love for sound systems from his father, Denzil 'Tibby Dread' Riley, who owned a sound system in the late 60s.\n\nHe began officially as a dancehall selector in 2000, earning props on Power Ranger sound system, then Crystal Image sound.\n\nAfter parting ways with Crystal Image, he and DJ Pasco Daego joined forces with Poison Dart sound. His legend grew as a sound-killing selector when he annihilated Nuclear Don Dadda at a clash in Denbigh, Clarendon.\n\nIn 2006, he joined up with Venom International from west Kingston.\n\nIn 2013, he helped to launch Venomous Squad, young selectors who wanted to learn the game.\n\n\"I always find it necessary to teach the youths how to do the music. I have played in the 14 parishes and I want to share my knowledge with others,\" he said.\n\nYou can find Fire K Venom working at Monday Monday, Breadlane and Charles Street; Bitter Tuesday, Wellington and North Streets and; Chemical Wednesdays. You can follow him on Instagram @firekvenom1986." ]

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[ null, "Owning a second home used to be about getting away from it all. Not any more. From the North Pole to the top of Mount Everest, you can now get online in almost every corner of the world. Connectivity isn’t even limited to the Earth – if you dream of Snapchatting your breakfast from the moon, Nasa has demonstrated a telescope- and laser-based wi-fi network that could let you do just that.\n\nYet while everywhere may be connected, some places are more connected than others. And the speed and quality of broadband is increasingly a key factor for people buying abroad, according to Edward de Mallet Morgan, a partner in the international team at Knight Frank estate agency. For people wanting better internet speeds at home, they should try to visit website options that can allow consumers to try and find high speed internet packages.\n\n“Entrepreneurs need to keep connected with their businesses,” he explains. “If they want to spend time in a nice environment, it’s important that they can still make video calls from their villas. And if they want to maximise rental income, wi-fi is of huge significance.”\n\nThat could be bad news for some traditional destinations, says Oliver Johnson, chief executive of the broadband analyst Point Topic. “Rural France is tough – there’s still a long way to go to get real bandwidth in deepest Provence, for example. And Italy is a broadband backwater.”\n\nHis comments are backed up by a 2016 EU report that found high-speed, “next generation” internet was available to fewer than half the households in France and Italy, and to just over a third in Greece.\n\nNot that good coverage is everything. Malta, for example, has the most comprehensive network in Europe, but a 2015 EU study found that the island’s services were among the most expensive in the continent, owing to a lack of competition. And the picture is constantly changing. Many of the fastest improvements are taking place in countries that lie a long way down the list of favoured locations for British buyers.\n\n“China moved 50m people onto full fibre connections in just one quarter this year, almost double the number of lines in the UK,” Johnson says. “In Europe, Tallinn, in Estonia, and Bulgaria are known for the price and choice of speeds.”\n\nSo why are some places speeding ahead and others lagging behind? “Where there’s money and people, there’s bandwidth,” Johnson says. “Where there’s people, but not much money – in India or parts of Africa, for example – there’s no bandwidth. The only way to get serious bandwidth is with a subsidy or a community project.”\n\nOne shouldn’t underestimate what a community can achieve. The village of Bjorndalen, in the Svalbard archipelago, 78 degrees north, has better broadband than most of mainland Norway: a local man struck a deal with a telecoms operator to lay the cables himself.\n\nHere’s a selection of destinations that are more connected than you might think.\nMustique\nThis tiny Caribbean outpost has always been ahead of the game as far as luxury is concerned. When Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, bought it in 1958, he transformed a fishing community into the first luxury island resort. It was originally associated with a quirky, aristocratic set – Princess Margaret built a house on a plot she was given as a wedding present – but homeowners now include rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Bryan Adams, the fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger and a host of jet-setters, including the Duchess of Cambridge and the Middletons.\n\nThe Mustique Island Company, run by the owners of the island’s 100 or so private villas, recently installed fibreoptic broadband in every home. Clients tell de Mallet Morgan that they get faster broadband here than they do in the home counties.\n\n“Holiday homes have had to evolve,” he says. “If you’re lucky enough to own in a place like this, you want your family to come here. To appeal to teenagers, you have to make sure they can stay in touch via Instagram and Facebook.”\n\nNot that he expects the character of the island to change dramatically. “What separates Mustique from the other islands is that it feels uncommercial. People come here to keep below the radar. They don’t really care who anyone else is.”\n\nSuch a low-key lifestyle doesn’t come cheap. Prices are “sensible rather than stratospheric”, according to de Mallet Morgan, but the entry level is about 4m, most houses cost more than 8m, and it wouldn’t be hard to pay up to 25m.\n\nFor sale: 15m\nWe warned you it isn’t cheap, but your eight figures do buy you the full island paradise experience at this elegant five-bedroom villa, set on its own private beach. There’s also a shorefront pool, with a grand pavilion and bar. knightfrank.com\nMorocco\nWith the fastest 4G signal in Africa and fibreoptic cable installed in most big towns and cities, Morocco is a good combination of the convenient and the exotic. Mobile data is cheap, too – about 4 for 4GB. That’s one reason why it’s popular among roaming techies – the so-called digital nomads – hoping to develop the latest money-spinning app in a land of sunshine and dirt-cheap rents. Many of them head to Taghazout, a fishing village near Agadir that’s found fame as a surfers’ paradise.\n\nFor buyers, Marrakesh is still the main market, and internet in the city is much faster than in Tangier or laid-back Essaouira, on the coast. A restored three-bedroom riad in the medina can be had for less than 250,000. Be wary of buying out of town – the cabling isn’t likely to have stretched that far yet.\n\nFor sale: 715,000\nAt the top end of the market, a grand five-bedroom riad with a patio garden and pool certainly fits the bill. The 500 sq metre house has been lavishly renovated and would make a great guesthouse – with online booking, of course.\nchic-marrakech.com\nMinorca\nMinorca used to be the boring Balearic, neither as wild as Ibiza nor as glitzy as Mallorca. These days, though, it’s forging a new reputation as a tech hub, thanks to some serious investment in fibreoptic cable and the annual Minorca Millennials jamboree – a high-profile summer camp/talking shop for Silicon Valley’s finest. “The Millennials programme has certainly brought more investment to Minorca,” says Alejandra Vanoli, managing director of Mallorca Sotheby’s International Realty. “Participants often inquire about the island’s property market while they’re here.”\n\nPlenty have gone one stage further, with bigwigs from Uber and former White House staffers setting up home on the island. And at least one company, Carbon Checkout, has upped sticks from California to move here. According to Vanoli, they are on to a good thing. “Since the recovery from the financial crisis, prices in Minorca have been growing at an average rate of 8%,” she says. “Compared to Mallorca and Ibiza, prices are lower, but properties are of the same standard.”\n\nFor sale: 385,000\nHow about a beautifully renovated one-bedroom flat near shops and restaurants in Mahon, the island’s tiny but delightful capital? It has two bathrooms and a roof terrace.\nmenorca-sothebysrealty.com\nBulgaria\nThe former Eastern Bloc countries have had an unlikely advantage in the race for superfast internet. When communism collapsed, they were left with poor telecoms infrastructure, so instead of trying to get by with slower copper cabling, as happened in more developed countries, they installed speedy fibreoptics. Bulgaria is one place that has benefited – Poland, Romania and Estonia are other success stories – with some of the fastest connections in Europe. It saw peak speeds of 59.3Mbps in the second quarter of 2016, compared with a global average of 36Mbps, and there’s a great selection of tariffs and packages.\n\nProperty here is cheap, but broadband coverage is far from universal, so don’t stray too far off the beaten track. Burgas, a spa resort on the Black Sea, has some of the highest upload speeds, and flat prices run from 35,000 to 90,000 – cheaper than the capital, Sofia, where internet speeds are slower. “The city has properties for every taste and budget, but buyers should be aware that the secondary market has many shabby buildings that require extensive renovation,” says Yulia Kozhevnikova, of the international property broker Tranio. “It’s imperative that buyers do their due diligence before agreeing to any transaction, so they know what they’re getting themselves into.”\n\nFor sale: 55,000\nHere’s a chance to bag a bargain: a two-bedroom villa in the spa town of Bansko, Bulgaria’s leading winter-sports resort. Nearly 3,000ft above sea level, it’s a popular spot for pop and jazz festivals, as well as decent skiing. If you’d rather stay in, there’s rapid broadband, too.\ntranio.com", null, "Traveling during the holidays can be a bit testing, so you should make certain that …\nTravel Destinations\nMore", null, "Hot tub holidays in the UK can be great. There’s loads of options these days …\nTravel Activities, Travel Destinations\nMore", null ]

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[ "AFSCME began its second strike of the year on Tuesday, attracting over a hundred workers, supporters and students to UC Santa Barbara’s Storke Tower.\n\nThis demonstration follows the statewide strike that took place last May.", null, "AFSCME initially announced its intention to strike on Oct. 12 following a vote in which 96 percent of AFSCME workers authorized a strike, according to a press release sent out by the union.\n\n“UC is trying to force workers to get by with much less than what’s necessary to provide for our families while lining the pockets of its top brass with excessive salaries, lavish perks and secret slush funds,” Kathryn Lybarger, AFSCME Local 3299 president, said in a press release.\n\n“By shortchanging workers, UC is also shortchanging the students, patients and communities who depend on us. The university is demanding less security and more inequality for tens of thousands of its workers, and that is completely at odds with its promise to ‘pioneer a better future’ for California.”\n\nToday’s protests at UCSB were part of a much bigger UC-wide demonstration that encompasses all 10 campuses.\n\nNothing has improved for AFSCME workers since the last demonstration, according to Bill Fitzpatrick, campus representative of University Professional & Technical Employees (UPTE).\n\nUPTE workers are striking this week in solidarity with AFSCME.\n\n“The university has now forced [the workers] to accept the terms of the university’s offers without the benefit of any more negotiations,” Fitzpatrick said.\n\nFitzpatrick, who represents 1,040 people in UPTE and voices their concerns to UC administration, has spent the past year and a half traveling to various UC campuses to bargain for workers’ conditions.\n\nUCSB workers are among the lowest paid in the system, despite the high cost of living associated with the Santa Barbara area, Fitzpatrick said.\n\n“Nobody is asking for an outrageous paycheck. We have a couple of titles here where the potential pay is 52 percent lower than the UC Davis campus for the same job titles. We are demanding an explanation of why that would be fair to us, why we are among the lowest paid campuses.”\n\nFor Esther Ramirez, a senior custodian in the Santa Catalina Residence Hall for the past 15 years, the future of UC workers’ conditions remains unclear.\n\n“It’s the second strike; I don’t know what is next,” Ramirez said. “It’s hard because I’m a single mom, and my family of three needs to take other jobs to support the family.”\n\nAccording to a UC worker who asked to remain anonymous, UC employees are often considered invisible.\n\nDozens of UC Santa Barbara students, as well as several professors, were among the workers on Tuesday.\n\nShelsea Sanchez, a second-year political science major and student worker in the dining commons, said she felt the need to support her coworkers in the demonstration.\n\n“I see and interact with these workers on a daily basis and see how the UC is super exploitative when it comes to working conditions,” she said.\n\n“I have to use my voice as a student to come out and represent those people who can’t talk for themselves.”\n\nSanchez is hopeful more students will gather for the protests on Wednesday and Thursday, adamant that students have a unique platform to advocate for reform.\n\n”Everybody here loves working at their jobs and would love to stay here. But if the UC can’t make it affordable to where we can’t afford to work at a UC and live in the Santa Barbara area, a lot of people aren’t able to stay with us,” Fitzpatrick said.\n\n“We would love to come to terms with a fair contract and get back to work without this distraction.”\n\nFurther Nexus coverage for the strike can be viewed here.\n\nRaises for AFSCME? Looks like tuition will go up to pay for it.\n\nIf these people don’t like the conditions of their employment, why don’t they just quit and find a job somewhere else and stop whining?\n\nlets get the caravan over and hire them instead\n\nHow sad that some people here are actually incapable of understanding." ]

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[ "The birth of Build to Rent – how did it become the PRS’s biggest trend?", null, "The birth of Build to Rent – how did it become the PRS’s biggest trend?\n\nBefore the pandemic struck, Build to Rent (BTR) was undeniably the property market’s fastest-growing trend. Many expect it to recover quickly, too, as returns are solid enough to have nervous institutional investors happily ploughing money into what is seen as something of a safe haven.\n\nWith commercial, office, retail and industrial all set to suffer as a result of Covid-19, residential’s popularity among pension funds, private equity firms and other major financial players is likely to soar.\n\nIn a recent three-part series, we explored the investors, developers and property managers driving the BTR boom, while CBRE’s latest research suggests that BTR will bounce back sharply in 2021 and outperform other sectors over the next five years.\nBut how did the sector come about in the first place and where is it going in the future? Here, with the help of Dominic Martin, who has worked in the sector for over a decade and who served on the government’s PRS taskforce (2013-14), Property Investor Today seeks to answer these questions.\n\nA trend decades in the pipeline\n\nAccording to Martin, the rise of the still relatively nascent BTR industry is more than 30 years in the making, with the Thatcher government’s 1988 Housing Act introducing the Assured Shorthold Tenancy. This law, which effectively governs the PRS and those who operate within it, is best thought of as a rulebook containing the statutory rights and legal responsibilities of both landlords and tenants.\n\nIt was introduced to incentivise more investment in the private rented sector, which in the late ‘80s looked very different to now. Most tenancies took on the form of protected and statutory tenancies – which, in turn, created a legal system that heavily favoured tenants. Tenants effectively had the right to stay in a rented property indefinitely, passing the tenancy down to their relatives when they died. This made gaining back possession of a property very difficult for landlords.\n\nAs a consequence, landlords became far less willing to let their properties over fears that they’d eventually lose control of them. The Housing Act 1988 changed that, putting in play a number of safeguards to ensure that landlords had the right to gain possession of their property should they need to, provided they followed the procedures set out in the statute.\n\nIronically, for someone who is seen as the poster-girl for home ownership in Britain thanks to her controversial Right to Buy policy – which led to a mass sell-off of council housing and a subsequent housing shortage – it was Thatcher who strengthened the rights of landlords and set in motion the building blocks that would lead to BTR’s eventual success.\n\nBut the real turning point, according to commenters such as Dr Robin Goodchild – a special adviser at LaSalle Investment Management – occurred 23 years ago, with 1997 marking the election of New Labour and its decision not to reverse the AST and return to regulated tenancies.\n\nSince that point, from Blair and Brown to Cameron, May and Johnson, there has been encouragement for big-money investors to get involved in the private rented sector – which has grown hugely in recent years to become the second biggest form of housing tenure, and the largest in London.\n\nThe first major milestone in BTR becoming the sub-sector we recognise today took place in 2009, in the dying days of New Labour. The ‘Private Rented Sector Initiative’, or PRSI, was the first government exploration of this sector – one which was already very well-established and successful in the US (where it’s known as multifamily). It was a request for expressions of interest from funds and developers.\n\n“This was back ended into the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA; now known as Homes England) ‘Kick Start 2’ funding programme – which led to the funding of the ‘Berkeley/HCA’ portfolio which M&G and the Pru later purchased,” Martin says.\n\nIn 2011, meanwhile, Delancey (backed by Qatari Diar) purchased a 50% stake in the ‘Olympic Village’ apartments in Stratford, which later led to the formation of Get Living London.\n\n“This was the first significant investment into a large residential rental portfolio, which furthermore wasn’t income producing at the time,” Martin states.\n\nThe Montague Report, led by Sir Adrian Montague, was commissioned by the government to review institutional investment into the PRS – and find out why investors remained wary and unwilling to take a leap of faith.\n\nDominic Martin is a Senior Advisor to Global Apartment Advisors and a former member of the government’s PRS taskforce. He has also worked as a surveyor, an Associate Director at CBRE and as Operations Director at a number of BTR investor operators." ]

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[ null, "\nKabulThousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as deadly floods cause devastation across the country.\n\nPowerful flash floods in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caused the Kabul River to swell, sweeping away a large bridge overnight, cutting off some districts from road access.\n\nDownstream, fears of flooding around the river banks prompted around 180,000 people in the district of Charsadda to flee their homes, according to disaster officials, with some spending the night on highways with their livestock.\n\nThe military has joined the country’s national and provincial authorities in responding to the floods and Pakistan’s army chief on Saturday visited the southern province of Balochistan, which has been hit heavily by the rains.\n\nPakistani leaders have appealed to the international community for help and plan to launch an international appeal fund. The foreign affairs ministry said Turkey had sent a team to help with rescue efforts.\n\n“The magnitude of the calamity is bigger than estimated,” said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a tweet, after visiting flooded areas.\n\nVisiting flood affected areas & meeting people. The magnitude of the calamity is bigger than estimated. Times demand that we come together as one nation in support of our people facing this calamity. Let us rise above our differences & stand by our people who need us today.\n\nIn neighbouring Afghanistan, the Taliban administration also appealed for help after flooding in central and eastern provinces.\n\nThe death toll from floods this month in Afghanistan had risen to 192, disaster authorities said. Thousands of livestock have been killed and millions of fruit trees destroyed, raising concerns over how families would feed themselves going into the cooler months while the country deals with an economic crisis.", null ]

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[ null, "The theological, doctrinal, political, and social revolutions that convulsed Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gave rise both to a jumble of national and territorial churches independent of Rome and to a vital, often creative, and at times virulent Counter-Reformation within the Catholic Church. This process also engendered the bloodiest war and the ghastliest massacres that the Continent would see until the twentieth century. In The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch(Viking) has taken on this vast subject and produced one of the most magisterial and stylishly written historical works to be published in a decade. The book sparklingly synthesizes scholarship on an astonishing array of subjects, ranging from repentance rituals in Protestant Transylvania to the Jesuits’ reactions to what they saw as the “Judaizing deviations” of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to church architecture. Throughout, MacCulloch, professor of the history of the Church at Oxford, explicates complex theological issues with startling lucidity. And his analyses of the lives, personalities, ideas, and struggles of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Cranmer, Philip II, and Ignatius of Loyola are at once sharp and profound (and not infrequently funny).\n\nYet this is far more than an intellectual or institutional history. The Reformation is the great and sanguinary fault line in Europe’s history, in part because the divides within Western Christendom soon came to express themselves in the chronic rivalries and dynastic clashes among Europe’s states (during the Thirty Years’ War as much as 40 percent of the population of the German lands suffered an early death because of the fighting or the concomitant famine and disease), and MacCulloch treats that tricky and often lethal interplay of religion and politics with nuance and care. Although he attends to high politics and theological disputes, his book is also a sophisticated work of social history, focusing on the ways these two centuries of turbulent change affected the daily lives of ordinary people—specifically in popular attitudes toward death, childhood, sexuality, marriage, and the family. MacCulloch’s supreme achievement, though, is his appreciation of the foreignness of his subject. The Reformation was a febrile time, in which Europeans, he reminds us, “were prepared to burn and torture each other because they disagreed on whether, or how, bread and wine were transformed into God.” In the face of this alien, and to most of his readers absurd, world MacCulloch never exercises what he calls “the condescension of posterity.” Rather, he fulfills the most difficult task of the historian: he allows us to understand the past on its own terms, and in so doing he makes us (modern, largely secular readers) see why these were in fact urgent issues to those who killed and were killed over them. This is a lasting work.", null, "The War for Righteousness, by Richard M. Gamble (ISI Books). Before the United States entered and while it was fighting the First World War, intellectuals and religious leaders in this country were divided between those who embraced the idea of the United States as a messianic crusader and held that this was a “war to end all wars,” since an American victory would help realize the kingdom of God, and those who opposed the war, especially when it was rationalized as a holy crusade. But many readers today would probably be surprised that liberals and progressive Christian leaders were the ones who adhered to the former position; conservatives and fundamentalists adhered to the latter. In this careful and incisive work of intellectual history Gamble dissects the origins and first flowering of liberal internationalism, and the relationship between it and progressive, social-gospel Christianity (George Marsden, in his Fundamentalism and American Culture, explored the antiwar position of the fundamentalists, a stand that provoked liberal Protestants to excoriate them as unpatriotic and even subversive). It’s a story of a largely self-righteous and unlovely dogma, and implicit in Gamble’s story is the idea that this liberalism—in positing that America will be safe only when the rest of the world is converted to American ideals—is an inherently expansionist ideology. (Gamble is scrupulously historical, uninterested in the contemporary implications of his analysis, but those who are so inclined can trace a fairly direct line from liberal interventionists’ moralistic cries for an American empire during the Great War to JFK’s stirring but rather dangerous notion that in the struggle against communism the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden” to the messianic utterances of George W. Bush, which today’s liberals love to scorn, though they’re remarkably similar to Bill Clinton’s.) Gamble’s book, along with the opening section of the second volume of Bruce Cumings’s Origins of the Korean War, is essential reading for those wishing to understand the rise and consolidation of liberal internationalism as America’s foreign-policy creed—one embraced across administrations since the late 1940s, by liberals and conservatives alike.", null, "avery few better novelists” than George Gissing. Publication of this new, usefully annotated edition of Gissing’s masterpiece roughly coincided with the centenary of his death, last year. This portrait of toilers in late-nineteenth-century London’s literary world depicts abject professional, personal, and marital disappointment—and the rise of one (in many ways appealing) man who maneuvers to snatch the glittering prizes. Very few novels paint so unsparing yet subtle a picture of the selfishness of most human motivation; and though this intricate, expertly plotted story is unrelievedly grim (the earnest, the decent, and the kind are all utterly defeated and broken up by life, and success, as we’re offhandedly reminded by the one successful character, “has nothing whatever to do with moral deserts”), it’s also—unbelievably—ceaselessly absorbing, ironic, and often extremely (if truly darkly) funny. It’s the greatest novel in English about failure —about men “capable of better things than they had done or would ever do”; Orwell’s own Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a pale reflection. We’re devoting the Books section this month to considerations of writers—Somerset Maugham, Booth Tarkington, John Marquand—whose works, like Gissing’s, have for various reasons failed to earn the designation “classic.” None aspired to write for the ages, but all, we think, warrant a fresh appraisal." ]

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[ "Raid in Texas Results in Arrest of 10 People as Crackdown on Gambling Continues Jack Jakob\nMarch 19, 2019 by Jack Jakob", null, "A recent raid that took place in Laredo, Texas saw police arrest 10 individuals who are believed to be connected to other recent raids by the authorities. Those raids targeted various suspected betting operations that were operating illegally within the state.\n\nThe three main culprits – Alex Chen, Jien Chen and Con Tran – were all charged with the offence of keeping and operating a gambling house, promoting gambling and furthermore, engaging in an organised criminal activity. Others involved in the arrest received charges on gambling promotion and keeping a gambling place.\n\nA total of seven homes were searched with warrants by the police, along with a total of 14 8-liners. This, the authorities stated, was an investigation taking place as part of the eighth phase of the Operation One-Armed Bandit.\n\nExpanding more on that, District Attorney Isidro R. “Chilo” Alaniz spoke of the raids being the “continuation of our efforts” in the fight against illegal gambling, specifically within the Texas location of Laredo. He went on to say that they will work with the police department and continue their operations as necessary.\n\nAdditional Details of the Raid\n\nIt was in the evening that officers dispatched themselves to the various locations in Laredo, operating with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Other authorities there included the Department of Public Safety, U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security investigators. Reports on the events do confirm that money was seized from all locations, although specific amounts were not disclosed. Search warrants were obtained by the police department before the raids were conducted.\n\nAlaniz gave a bit more away regarding the operations, stating that “if you have maquinitas (the Spanish word for machines) and you’re paying out cash”, it’s more than likely that an undercover cop will be within the establishment at some point. Essentially, he pointed out that anyone running illegal casino or other gambling dens is “going to be busted” and their machines seized.\n\nIt was back in 2017 that raids were conducted on various Laredo locations, which also took place with the backing of the District Attorney. Many facilities that provide gambling operations in the city so blatantly go against Texas law, providing cash rewards to players who are lucky enough to win hundreds of dollars or more. When the 2017 raids were conducted, the owners of the machines were arrested, as were several employees working within their illegal casino.\n\nTo add to the charges of promoting gambling and holding a gambling place, some of the individuals at that time were also charged with money-laundering. Charges such as these could result in jail time under Texas law, since they are considered to be felonies.\n\nYet, it was even earlier than this that raids first began taking place, with the initial ones happening between 2010 and 2013. During that period, the police department arrested around 60 people, although the charge brought against most of the individuals at that time was gambling promotion – considered to be a Class A misdemeanour in Texas. Just 30% of the arrested individuals in that time period were actually prosecuted, though." ]

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[ null, "90 Day Fiancé couple Tiffany Franco and Ronald Smith have wild ups and downs in their relationship, but recent episodes have featured more downs than ups. On the show, Tiffany is visiting Ronald, who is ill-prepared to host two children and doesn’t seem to want to help with things like changing diapers. Off of the show, the couple seems to have called it quits, with each calling the other out on social media. Now, Tiffany Franco says she’s looking forward to peace with Ronald Smith out of the picture.", null, "Tiffany and Ronald are not shy about airing their dirty laundry on social media, when it comes to their 90 Day Fiancé relationship. The two called things quits over social media for the second time recently, but this time they haven’t reconciled as quickly — and it remains to be seen if they will at all.\n\n“I’m tired of being the idiot honestly. Always trying for nothing just to be told I’m playing victim. Maybe he’s right and I don’t see what a huge a–hole I am but I’m tired of trying a–hole at this point [sic],” she commented on a now-deleted Instagram post when the two first called it quits.\n\nOn her Instagram story, Tiffany Franco suggested that her split from Ronald Smith would result in peace of mind.\n\n“In the next 6 months I will have: peace,” Franco shared to her Instagram story. Franco used the Mercedes brand symbol instead of the peace symbol, but the intent was clear.\n\nFranco additionally called Smith emotionally abusive in one of her comments.\n\n“But he’s emotionally abusive. You’re right he has given me no choice but to be tough but this is not the life I wanna live I want to be happy and be vulnerable with the person that I love … it’s too much,” Franco replied to a fan on one of her Instagram posts.", null, "Tiffany and Ronald seem to share many of the same viewpoints when it comes to their 90 Day Fiancé relationship. Ronald Smith called Tiffany Franco an emotionally abusive person as well.\n\n“When someone constantly puts you down, leaves you feeling like you can’t do anything right, or makes you feel worthless and bad about yourself in general — just know you did nothing wrong and that this isn’t love, it’s emotional abuse,” wrote Smith on his Instagram story when the couple first split.\n\nSince all of the Instagram drama started between Tiffany and Ronald, Tiffany’s own mother has chimed in. In a reply to a fan comment on one of her Instagram posts, she suggested that their online drama is fabricated for 90 Day Fiancé.\n\n“I’m glad you’re supportive of her, but teach your girl how to nag less, there are better ways to communicate with your partner,” commented an Instagram user.\n\n“Hun it’s a show. She’s deff not a nagging person. But she is pushy so [long] as she knows she’s pushing for the right reasons. She wanted him to be a better person not just for her and the kids but for himself his mom and dad, friends and extended family but deff mostly for himself. He’s doing great and he knows he owes a lot to her for that,” wrote Tiffany’s mother." ]

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[ null, "SMITHTOWN, NY – (April 6, 2015) – Most people are aware that we have soldiers overseas in Afghanistan. But what most are not usually aware of is that many times they become attached to dogs that they find roaming in the area. For some, it’s the bond they create with those new pets that keep them feeling happy and hopeful. Yet when their tour of duty is over and it’s time to go back home to the U.S., they find themselves having to break that bond and leave the dog behind. Guardians of Rescue, an international animal rescue organization, works to change that by reuniting soldiers with the dogs they had to leave behind.\n\n\"Through our No Buddy Left Behind Program, we have helped numerous soldiers to be reunited with the dogs they were caring for in Afghanistan,” stated Robert Misseri, founder and president of Guardians of Rescue. “It’s the least we can do for these soldiers, who miss the dogs and worry about their fate. But we can’t do it alone; we need the public’s help in order to make it a successful mission.”\n\nThere are costs involved in bringing the dogs back to the U.S. from the Middle East. This expense is one reason that Guardians of Rescue reaches out to the public for donations in order to help make it possible. The group is working with the only Afghanistan-based animal shelter, Nowzad, to make the mission possible and successful. The dogs will be flown into John F. Kennedy International Airport at the end of April, and then will be transported on to Portland, Ore., where they will be reunited with the soldiers they were with in Afghanistan.\n\nThe dogs being reunited were found and rescued by a couple of U.S. Army soldiers. When they spotted the mom she had four puppies and a wounded paw, and they saw the way other stray dogs had been mistreated in the area. They decided to help nurse the wounded leg back to health, and went on to care for and bond with the mother and her puppies. The platoon medic will be adopting her, while another soldier takes two of the puppies, and a third soldier has expressed interest in another one of the puppies.\n\n“These soldiers have given us so much, the least we can do it is reunite them with these dogs they bonded with,” said Dori Scofield, vice president of Guardians of Rescue. “Every little bit helps, and it all adds up to meaning so much for them and the dogs. Together we can save them!”\n\nThe cost to bring the dogs back to America and deliver them to the soldiers is estimated at $6,000. Guardians of Rescue is seeking donations from the public to help with this mission. Those who would like to learn more and make a donation can do so by logging onto: http://guardiansofrescue.org/banners-view/no-buddy-left-behind/.\n\nAbout Guardians of Rescue Based in New York, Guardians of Rescue is an organization whose mission is to protect the well being of all animals. They provide aid to animals in distress, including facilitating foster programs, rehabilitation, assisting other rescue groups, and providing support to families, both military and not, who need assistance due to economic factors. To learn more about Guardians of Rescue, visit the site at www.guardiansofrescue.org.\n\nWe have 591 guests and no members online" ]

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[ null, "Lahore: The Indian government is \"reluctant\" to send its 24 witnesses to Pakistan to record their statements in the Mumbai terror attack case, the prosecution told an anti-terrorism court conducting the trial.\n\nThe anti-terrorism court held the hearing in the case at Adiyala Jail Rawalpindi after a \"break\" of over four months.\n\n\"The prosecution told the court that the Indian government is reluctant to send 24 Indian witnesses to Pakistan to record their statements in the case,\" a court official told PTI after the hearing.\n\nThe court was also informed that the Indian government had not only refused to send the witnesses but also demanded re-investigation of the case.\n\nProsecution said the Indian witnesses statements are needed to conclude the Mumbai case which has been pending for the last seven years.\n\n\"The case may not be concluded till the Indian witnesses appear in the trial court,\" the prosecution said.\n\nThe court adjourned the hearing till March 22.\n\nIn a reply to Pakistan's letter regarding sending 24 Indian witnesses here to record their statements in the Mumbai attack case, New Delhi has asked Islamabad to re-investigate the case and also demanded trial of Jammat-ud-Dawah chief Saeed and Lashkar-e-Taiba operation commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi in the light of evidence it (India) had provided to it.\n\nAn interior ministry official had told PTI that Pakistan had no issue to try any suspect of Mumbai case provided it had evidence against him.\n\nSaeed, who carries a reward of USD 10 million, was also put under house arrest after Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008 but he was freed by court in 2009.\n\nThe Punjab government on January 30 had put Saeed and four other leaders of JuD and Falah-e-Insaniat (FIF)?under house arrest for a period of 90 days in exercise of powers under section 11-EEE(1) of Anti Terrorism Act 1997.\n\nLakhvi got his freedom some 22 months ago after he secured bail in the case. He has been living in undisclosed location since then. The other six suspects are in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.\n\nTen LeT militants killed 166 people and wounded dozens in Mumbai in November, 2008. Nine of the attackers were killed by police while lone survivor Ajmal Kasab was caught.\n\nKasab was executed after a court found him guilty and handed down death sentence." ]

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[ "Jana Ramer Net Worth: How Rich is The American Singer In 2023?\n\nJana Kramer is an American country music singer and actress who was born on December 2, 1983. She is most famous for playing Alex Dupre on the TV show One Tree Hill. Kramer started making music in 2012 and has since put out two albums: Jana Kramer and Thirty One. She also took part in season 23 of Dancing with the Stars.\n\nKramer started acting when she was only 16 years old. Her first role was in the independent horror movie Dead/Undead, which came out in 2002. Over the next few years, she was a guest star on shows like All My Children and CSI: NY. In the second season of NBC’s Friday Night Lights, she was cast as Noelle Davenport, a role she kept for the rest of the show’s run. Then, in 2008 and 2009, Kramer played Portia Ranson on 90210 and Brooke Manning on Entourage.\n\nJana Kramer is an American actress and country music singer, and celebritynetworth says that she is worth $2 million as of 2023.", null, "Kramer makes about $500,000 a year from things like brand endorsements, commercials, and public appearances. Kramer has made money as a singer and actor, and it’s likely that her podcast with her now-ex-husband, Mike Caussin, “Whine Down with Jana Kramer and Michael Caussin,” also adds to her wealth.\n\nDocuments show that Jolie and Jace were given to Kramer as their primary caretaker. She will have custody of the kids 240 days out of the year, and Caussin will have them the other 125 days.\n\nKramer has to pay $3,200 a month to Caussin as child support. The divorce was over on July 22, 2021. Kramer will pay Caussin a total of $592,400 to settle all of Caussin’s claims against the marital estate. This is a full and final settlement.\n\nThe two also agreed to split their two joint bank accounts. Kramer kept her two businesses, Sophia Dog Inc. and Moms and Babes LLC, and Caussin kept his 2013 Ford F150 Raptor. According to the papers, the two will pay for their own lawyers because they haven’t talked about their finances in public yet.", null, "Kramer has worked with the charity Hearts2Honduras for a long time. She worked with them when she filmed the music video for her song “Love” in El Progreso, Honduras, on a trip with 34 fans that included building a community centre and going to an orphanage." ]

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[ null, "She graduated from West Iredell High School in 2013, and was a volunteer with the Christian Ministry. She loved to do crossword puzzles.\n\nShe was preceded in death by her grandmother, Linda Stevenson; her great grandmother, Helen Holmes and Mary T. Chambers; an aunt, Dana (Barry) Caldwell; a nephew, Eliyjah Parker; and a cousin, Tamara Caldwell.\n\nCelebration of Life Services will be conducted Saturday, March 21, 2020, at The Mary B. Bigham Memorial Chapel of Rutledge and Bigham Funeral Home in Statesville. District Elder Christopher Steele will officiate and Pastor Glenn Usry will officiate. Burial will follow in the Belmont Cemetery.\n\nVisit the Book of Memories for Brittany at www.rutledgeandbigham.com.\n\nUnfortunately, with the COVID-19 virus we, at Rutledge and Bigham Funeral Home, along with other funeral homes across the country, have been issued a mandate to limit the number of family and/or friends at funeral services. You can only enter the funeral with a funeral pass which has been given to the family.\n\nGeneral Viewing will be held at the funeral home on Saturday morning from 9 until 10:30 a.m. Please continue your prayers and love for the family." ]

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[ "So, the choice was presented: either shoot Alicia Keys at the 02 Arena from the mixing desk or Keysia Cole at the Indig02. Of course, I have nothing against Alicia Keys; she’s alright in my book. That said, I’d rather shoot up close and personally, than shooting from a distance. So, the decision was kind of obvious. Besides, I’d already photographed Ms Keys in the past, so it’s always nice to snap someone new. 🙂", null, null, null, "To me, the music of Ms Cole is one thing or the other: either I may have heard her stuff at a party or on the radio station and thought ‘This is nice‘; or I was officially introduced to her music for the first time during her performance at the Indigo2 and thought “This is nice“. As for her fan base, let me just say that the women outnumbered the men about 15:1, and that was no exaggeration. So much so that another guy walked up to me and asked whether this was a ‘Women only Invite‘!", null, null, null, "All in all, interesting gig. Ms Cole, I salute you!", null, "Thought of the Day:\n\nIt’s ignorance that makes a house rat challenge the cat for a duel. [Not outdaring oneself]" ]

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[ null, "June is a beautiful and joyous month of the year that celebrates many things. June 12th is celebrated as Family Health and Fitness Day. June 21st is celebrated as International Yoga Day every year, etc. June was a great month for Freedom from Diabetes too.\n\nWe witnessed many participants becoming free from their diabetes medicines and insulin. This month saw many succeed in losing 10+ kg weight too. For some, their BP and cholesterol medicines have also stopped. All-in-all, it has been a proud month for us.\n\nMr. Purohit is a 48 years old government employee from Pune. He has a strong family history of diabetes on the maternal side and thought he would require to be on medicines for all his life. Came to know about Freedom from Diabetes through a school friend, joined it and he is extremely happy with his progress. His diabetes medicines stopped in just 4 days of joining the FFD program, lost a good amount of weight, and has taken up cycling as his athletic identity.\n\nHe is a 43-year-old gentleman from Mumbai. He got diabetes at a very young age of 28-29. Life was difficult with BMI being more than 30 along with cholesterol medicine and blood thinners. A colleague of his from Pune informed him about Freedom from Diabetes which he joined and the rest is history. He is not only free from diabetes medicines but lost a considerable amount of weight too. He is happy with his overall progress in health with FFD.\n\nFFD has got patients from all over India. This case is from a different place Chhattisgarh. Om Prakash Prasad is a 42 years young Engineer working in a Public Sector Company. Came to know about his diabetes in 2008. Suffered from a frozen shoulder and was on medicine for cholesterol too. Came to know about FFD through Facebook, joined the program and all good things happened to him. Not only he has become free of diabetes and cholesterol medicine but his frozen shoulder problem is also resolved after joining FFD.\n\nHis story is a superb example of the improvement in overall health with FFD. He is a 59 years young Sr. Scientist from Ghaziabad who suffered from diabetes, cholesterol, and hypertension. His search on the internet led him to FFD which changed his life totally. He became diabetes medicine free on the very 7th day of joining the FFD program. His cholesterol medicines have been reduced to half and he could easily do 60 hours of water fast.\n\nShe is a 45 years young and cheerful corporate employee settled in England. Luckily nondiabetic but a victim of a lethargic lifestyle. She was facing a lot of problems due to being overweight. Tried several weight loss programs in England but they did not help much. Got introduced to FFD through a relative and decided to join it. She found the FFD diet very helpful to her and succeeded in losing considerable weight in just 3 months. She is very satisfied with her treatment with FFD and plans to shed more 15 kg." ]

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[ "Okay, we’ve long championed drumming as a great boost for anyone’s physical and emotional wellbeing. And Count Me In aims to get that across, too.\n\nNetflix’s 2021 documentary is a love letter to rhythm, percussion, and drums.\n\nAnd it also provides a mini-history of some top drummers, mainly from the world of rock music. Does it skip a beat?! Let’s have a ba-dum-tish.\n\nCount Me In (the 2021 drumming documentary)\n\nOkay, Count Me In is all about the joy of drumming. As it’s quite the adrenaline rush and enjoyable as an experience.\n\nAs the documentary points out, it can be a fun hobby in solitude, or you can join drumming communities to revel in the bopping spirit together.\n\nThat’s the goal of this Netflix thing and, on the whole, it does manage to get across why people love the drums so much.\n\nFor which it offers a casual overview of drummers from the trad jazz, swing, and early rock ‘n roll era. Such as jazz drummer extraordinaire Joe Morello.\n\nOther pioneers of modern drumming are flagged up, such as The Beatles’ Ringo Starr and The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts.\n\nPlenty of modern drummers are on hand to lend their life experiences into the mix. Mainly to divulge what got them into it and why they love the drums.\n\nFor example, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is omnipresent throughout Count Me In with his enthusiasm and love for his instrument of choice.\n\nBut if there’s one issue, and despite its best efforts, we feel the film will only appeal to those who already like drumming.\n\nAlthough it may convert a few bored people on a Sunday afternoon who decide to give it a whirl on Netflix. Hopefully it will do!\n\nThe way the drummers in the documentary swoon over why Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham was the shiz will certainly make you sit up and pay attention. Look at him go!\n\nAnother issue? As much as we love Dave Grohl as an enthusiastic and positive bloke, the over appreciation of his drumming abilities is dragging on.\n\nGrohl is a good drummer. However, he’s been hyped into oblivion by Nirvana fans as some sort of exceptional genius. That’s despite his obviously quite normal drumming abilities.\n\nIt’s an odd situation for us, as he’s such a top bloke. He’s also not the one going around honking about how great he thinks he is, as he’s a humble guy and likes to lampoon rock star grandiosity and pomposities.\n\nIt’s his fans and other journalists, like Rolling Stone Magazine, voting and sticking him at the top of Best Drummers lists.\n\nSo, sorry Mr. Grohl, we think you’re a good drummer! Just not a genius. And his positivity and verve for drumming come across in his interviews.\n\nAway from that, Count Me In is an effective love letter to drumming. And anyone watching it should, hopefully, get inspired to give percussion a whirl.\n\nThe documentary’s tone does get a little smug at times. Yet we can’t argue with a film that goes out of its way to promote something positive for people to enjoy.\n\nHowever, you should still watch the likes of Beware of Mr. Baker (2012), which gets to the core of what makes for drumming greatness. And, indeed, madness!\n\nDrumming fans have reacted quite poorly to the documentary, complaining that some of their favourite drummers are missing from it.\n\nOne of our favourites, The Stone Roses’ Reni, doesn’t have a mention at all. It doesn’t affect the film. It’s about the joy of playing, not who the best drummers are.\n\nAnd that brings us to a type of online commenter we’ve spotted over the years. And we’ve decided to coin a phrase!\n\nAll over the internet there are drummer reply guys. They’re along the lines of reply guys on Twitter.\n\nDrummer reply guys can’t make online comments without inserting a list of drummers, who they think are the best, into a response. Here’s an example from an IMDb review.\n\nThat exact type of drummer reply guy is everywhere online. Particularly YouTube, where he’s prepped and ready with his list (that always includes Bernard Purdie and Billy Cobham).\n\nAlso, note this one (stevelivesey67) is having a bit of a whinge about the obligatory mention of equality in all things these days. Diddums, Steve.\n\nAnyway, that comment personifies what we mean. These drummer reply guys are all over the place online with their list of favourite drummers.\n\nAnd, unfortunately, Count Me In has inadvertently provided them with an opportunity to go forth with their lists and spout them incessantly.\n\nMay GOD have mercy on our souls.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "BLOOMSBURG — Northeast Bradford's dominance at the Class A level in District IV continued in the cold and soggy conditions Thursday.\n\nCasey Ellis (16:59) ran away with the individual title, Garret Smith (17:20) out kicked Southern Columbia's Ethan Knoebel (17:22) for second and the Panthers took four of the top 10 spots with all five scorers in the top 12 to put their fifth straight team title away.\n\n\"Really good, really good, all the hard work has paid off,\" an excited Ellis remarked after pulling away for his win.\n\nThe only runner more thrilled than Ellis when he crossed the finish line may have been his teammate Smith.\n\nThe senior held up two fingers for taking silver then pumped his fist with a triumphant shout.\n\n\"It feels great to just continue on what we've been doing,\" Zak Smith said about the title. \"Working hard, keep it going.\"\n\n\"It feels great as a team,\" Ellis said about the title. \"We have a great program, a great history.\"\n\nCoach Mike Murphy was glad to see his runners still have an edge when it comes to districts.\n\n\"Sometimes you get complacent or you come to expect certain things,\" he explained. \"We run pretty well here. We've always run pretty well here. Southern Columbia was on the radar earlier, they were runner-up at Foundation. Some other results seemed to indicate we had them covered but we had to execute today and I think those guys did more than execute really.\"\n\nMurphy noted that Garret was as close to Casey as he's been this season and all the way down to their sixth, Moore, they all had their best days.\n\n\"Destin was really close to our fifth,\" said Murphy. \"That's what were going to need for sure.\"\n\nThey had to shake off a cold morning, even for the district championships.\n\n\"Once the race started we all said we all felt good,\" explained Zak Smith.\n\nEllis and Knoebel went out even for the first half of the race but at the far end, the first time around the fields, Ellis made his move for the lead and never looked back.\n\n\"I figured Ethan and (Hunter) Crawley would go out in front,\" explained Ellis. \"So I figured to stay a little bit behind them and a little after the mile to drop the hammer. I sticked to that game plan.\"\n\nWith the hammer dropped, Knoebel could only try to hang on, which he did for the second mile but by the third he was fading fast while Ellis was able to kick to the finish to go sub-17.\n\n\"I just surged for three minutes,\" Ellis remarked. \"Good enough to get a lead.\"\n\nNot a bad day for somebody who took up running a little more than a year ago.\n\nBut Ellis put in enough miles this summer to fill a 4-year career and it has gotten him a district title.\n\n\"I knew I had a chance,\" he said about getting the gold. \"I knew it would be tough but it feels great.\"\n\n\"Casey's super fit, he's super gutsy,\" described Murphy. \"He just opened up the gap from about a mile on and that was it.\"\n\nDefending district champion Crawley of South Williamsport was injured and didn't factor into the race for gold.\n\n\"We had a race strategy that we had been working on for a week to race against Hunter Crawley,\" said Murphy. \"He wasn't even there.\"\n\nGarret used Ellis as part of his game plan.\n\n\"I wasn't going to be right behind him but I wanted to keep him in my sights the whole race,\" explained Smith.\n\nHe ran with Southern's number two Nicholas Kuzo (17:35), who finished fourth overall, for most of the race before surging late to catch and pass Knoebel.\n\n\"We knew Ethan and Casey were sort of similar, then the second man was just like me so we decided to just stick to each other,\" he explained.\n\nThen with Kuzo safely behind him, Smith made a hard kick for Knoebel once he made the final turn before the home stretch.\n\n\"My adrenaline kicked in and I booked it,\" he said. \"That felt great.\"\n\nGarret's coach has noticed his renewed commitment this season.\n\n\"He's been working really hard this year,\" said Murphy. \"He's very focused. I can't say that cross-country is his favorite sport but he loves to win and he knows what it takes to win so he's really been putting the work in. I'm always happiest for the kids who work the hardest and get results.\"\n\nThe rain made the course a little slick, especially down the few hills.\n\n\"We made sure we watched our footing on the turns,\" Zak Smith remarked.\n\nBut no matter how careful runners are, falls do happen in wet conditions.\n\n\"The footing was terrible,\" Senn-Bishop remarked. \"Zak went down twice. I had to help him back up. I almost went down, too.\"\n\n\"I was going really slow down the hills,\" added Mosier. \"Just trying to not mess anything up for states.\"\n\nMurphy felt Mosier had a good race to round out the top 10.\n\n\"I felt good, I went out a little conservative,\" he said. \"Well, it felt conservative but it was fast. I was 20th place at the mile mark.\"\n\nThat was a little further back than he wanted but as the race went on, the other runners dropped.\n\n\"I kept going as the others slowed down,\" Mosier explained. \"They went out too hard.\"\n\nSenn-Bishop used familiar faces as reference points during the race.\n\nMurphy feels his team is peaking at the right time as they get ready for the PIAA Championships down at Hershey next Saturday, especially compared to last year's team at this point.\n\n\"I think health-wise we're really healthy,\" he remarked. \"Focus-wise they're pretty good. Unfortunately the state is a little more competitive in single-A. I think if you put the two teams head to head, this one might beat last year's team but as far as in the state we have our work cut out for us.\"\n\nGoing into states Ellis is going to continue to do what has gotten him here.\n\n\"Keep on working hard,\" he said. \"I have a game plan for states, too, though. I will go out and try to execute. If the team does good we have a shot at another state title.\"\n\nThis will be Garret Smith's fourth trip to states. As a freshman he state medaled but the last two years he's come up empty. This year he wants it all.\n\n\"A state medal,\" he said. \"First place (as a team), maybe second place. We've got to beat out that third place the last three years.\"\n\nMosier is hoping to just have a good race at Hershey.\n\n\"I've had a pretty bad last two years at states,\" he admitted. \"I didn't come in really where I wanted to so this year I'm going to go out a little bit smarter and work the hills. That is my weakest point.\"\n\nFor Garret, Ellis and Senn-Bishop this state meet will be their last.\n\n\"I am going to try to go as hard as I can,\" said Senn-Bishop. \"I am trying to get my body in as good a shape as I can. 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[ "The highest point in the Crawford Mountains of Utah and Wyoming is Rex Peak. With 1,246 feet of prominence and no trees, the views are quite distant. Unfortunately, the nearby views aren't very good although they are a bit interesting. The summit area has been strip mined. The entire summit area is one big tailings pile so the peak is probably much higher than 7,996 feet now. A good road most any car could handle will take you within feet of the summit. Warning signs suggest walking around the Crawford Mountains with all the unstable mining slopes in the area isn't wise. The short trek up to the summit though looked safe.", null, null, "Just north of the town of Randolph Utah on highway 16, look for a sign saying Crawford Mountain Road. Follow it east toward the range for 5 miles. At the base of the range at 5 miles, cross Mine Road heading up into a canyon. Continue another 1.9 miles to a Y intersection. Both roads look good, both I believe go to the summit. I went right following this branch to the top. From the highest point on the road the summit is just feet to the north although the highpoint to the south with a tower will look higher.", null, "Not very good anywhere around as there is no shade and it's quite rocky. I have no idea why but the mosquitoes on this dry mountain were absolutely huge and very aggressive. The Monte Cristo Range to the west is much better with primitive and established campgrounds. Take Hwy 39 west of Woodruff to the Birch Creek Campground or drive north 30 minutes to Bear Lake where there are many lakeside campgrounds.\n\nThis information is from mountaingazelles informative page on Northern Utah Ranges. The Crawford Mountains are located near the Utah and Wyoming border by the city of Randolph. The mountains rise abruptly out of the valley forming a steep escarpment on the west side of the range. The range runs in a northeast to southwest direction. It is a popular place for paragliding. The Crawford Mountains were mined extensively from 1902 through 1972 utilizing both underground and surface mining techniques. The primary method for extracting the phosphate ore was stope mining. The highest mountain in the range is Rex Peak. It is one of the few named peaks in the range. The mountain is surrounded by dirt roads that were used to mine phosphate. Evidence of mining activity can still be seen today along many of the canyons in the range. The Crawford Fault is located along the western base of the Crawford Mountains and in the Bear River flood plain. The central part of the fault shows evidence for late Pleistocene activity. The Crawford Uplift is the result of two parallel fault systems. The east bounding fault is expressed as an eroded mountain front that is deeply incised by drainages. The younger west bounding fault is expressed as a steep mountain front that rises abruptly from the Bear River Valley. The flat, grassy Bear River Valley around Randolph conceals its elevation at 6,280 feet above sea level. The Bear River loops its way lazily past a short distance to the east of town, on its way from the 13,000 foot peaks of the Uinta Mountains to the south which can be seen in the distance, to the Great Salt Lake. Beyond the river, the valley abruptly ends as the face of the Crawford Mountains rise to nearly 8,000 feet. To the west of town, sagebrush-covered hills rise gradually towards the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains in the distance. Two creeks, Big Creek and Little Creek, flow out of canyons at the northwest and southwest corners of Randolph. This area is known for its cold temperatures. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Utah was in Peter Sinks in the Bear River Mountains. The city of Woodruff holds the record in a Utah community for having the coldest temperature at -50. The valley that the city sits in regularly has temperatures below zero during winter. The climate in the area is semi-arid with less than 14 inches of annual precipitation, much of this coming in winter as snowfall. The vegetation is mostly green shrubs and trees that is comprised of sagebrush and rabbitbrush. On March 14 of 1870, Randolph H. Stewart and other Mormon pioneers arrived at and founded Randolph. Cold winters, on account of the high elevation, made it a struggle to establish the settlement, but they were successful. The summers are pleasant with lots of sunshine and blue skies. Ranching is the major occupation today, as it always was. The city of Randolph was named after Randolph H. Stewart and is the largest city near the range. Woodruff is the smaller town located south of the city of Randolph. Woodruff Creek flows through a wide, flat canyon out of the mountains to the west and through the middle of the town. The valley is green with grass and even swampy in places, while the hills can look pretty dry at times. Woodruff was settled in 1870 by a group of Mormon pioneers from Bountiful, Utah. They named it after Wilford Woodruff, president of the LDS Church at the time, who was a frequent visitor to the area.", null, null, null, "Looking South to the Uinta Mountains", null ]

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[ "What is moral? How has morality changed and how does that effect how we make decisions and evaluate the decisions of others in politics, business, and sex? In Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business. Eden Collinsworth embarks on a personal journey to discover morality in a new globalized culture.\n\nEden Collinsworth is a former media executive and business consultant. She was formerly of Arbor House Publishing Company founder of the LA based monthly magazine Buzz before becoming a vice president at Hearst Corporation.\n\nShe wrote a best-selling book in China for Chinese businesspeople on Western deportment and she launched Collinsworth & Associates, a Bejing based consulting firm which specialized in intercultural communication.\n\nThis is an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired in April 2017.", null ]

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[ "In the flora and fauna of Linux computing, the Pearl OS is one of the most promising stars of the elusive platform. Though it might have a lot to catch up if it is to be compared with today’s top game changers in the OS arena such as Windows and Mac, if you’re one of the Linux fanboys who crave for maximum open source code potential and greatly customizable settings, then Pearl might be a welcoming breath of fresh air.", null, "Tailored after the user interface of the Mac OS, Pearl might be easily your jam. For starters, it is the continuation of the halted Pear OS way back early last year – in other words, the second iteration of the infamous operating system.\n\nPearl has sprung up 2 desktop versions, namely the XFCE and MATE. They are both based on an Ubuntu Linux Distro versions 14.O4 Mini release. Consequently, both iterations are made to look and respond like the actual OS X system with just one difference – Pearl, on the back end, is solely loyal to Linux architecture. It does not run any OSX software or have its functions or whatsoever. And you strip off the cosmetic side, Pearl is just the same as other Linux releases down the core, especially to other Linux distros that run the Docky application launcher at the screen’s bottom section.\n\nIt is true that the development of Pearl is still in its infancy, but it is still highly commendable. Both of its intricate iterations have distinctions, but both adhere to the same traits that it has been orchestrated.\n\nAs a piece of advice, you can check out the Pearl MATE 1.0 version. It should be able to maximize your hardware more efficiently and it sports a magnificent 64-bit system in comparison to XFCE, which is strictly confined to 32 bit. Another interesting fact is that both utilize the Compiz Window Manager which is a flexible plugin compositing manager. No wonder why the Pearl managed to sport such an impressive UI environment!\n\nPerformance wise, you can’t say a word against the Pearl OS. However, you might have to be a little more patient in the installation because the ISO file will take an unusually long time to burn when trying to extract Pearl OS 1.0. You might also encounter some screen freezes for a few times. But in the end, Pearl is a promising OS that could potentially measure up with its contemporaries. If you’re one of the Linux fanboys, you should definitely check it out!\n\nIn this article:Linux, OS, Pearl", null, null, null, "Why Your Netbook Should Run On Linux\n\nWindows and MacOS still dominate the operating system market for desktops and laptops. And to many people, Linux is only good for servers. However,..." ]

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[ null, "Ecovillage: your country needs you. Like it or not you’re Exhibit C in one very important case—the one which proves once and for all that Sweden doesn’t just make porn and pine furniture. Exhibits A and B put up a strong defence back there, and of course we’ve all got our favourite Abba moments (mine, ironically, porn-related), so it now falls to hippy-spawn Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström to soar off on one truly weird tangent. Describing Ecovillage to the unordained would make even Gene Simmons slightly tongue-tied: Peter and Emil meld shimmering, out-of-tune crystal balls that bob in a sea of feedback, drum machines supplying the occasional cartilage. Vocals orgasm on the horizon, guitars drip, birds take off in slow motion. You get the picture—no? Well, they also pack that necessary European fastidiousness in really hammering their ambivalence home, having binned what would have been their debut LP to retrain and replace it with Phoenix Asteroid. Phoenix Asteroid...yeah, I smelt a rat with a title like that too, but then I thought, “Fuck it, how often do you get to party with an album that’s named after your top two Atari games?”\n\nJust as Ecovillage’s mother country became a depository for British CFCs thirty years ago, so Asteroid itself is a little dated/contaminated—in a nice way, of course, like how the smog on the LA skyline adds a caramel tint to the blueness. Jonas Munk (aka Manual), who’s championed the band from the outset and lent some ideas to the master, remarked: “When I first heard Ecovillage, I couldn’t believe my ears. Sometimes it sounds like radio-friendly boyband pop filtered through shoegaze aesthetics, other times it comes across as psychedelic music—not so much in sound as in effect. This really is Dream Pop in the original sense of the term.” Munk’s on the nail with that one, and if you’ve ever been naked back at school or had an anti-grav rush circa midnight, Ecovillage might just scratch your itch. Just as you get used to the floaty trill of one of the more innocent pieces—see “Small Bright Points,” the opener—a number like “Dawn Was Brand New” materialises, its beach recordings taking you to the Arctic Circle where—bizarrely—you can hear steel drums. Hang on, this is isn’t non-specific uptempo New Age, this is Cool Runnings. With mescaline! Then the keyboards open up and you withdraw to somewhere unmapped, the waves still clear amidst the blinding synthetics. You can practically taste the salt in those breakers.\n\nThey don’t stop there, however, with Phoenix Asteroid‘s lazy crashes becoming more sensual as the listener learns to let go. At times, Wikström and Holmström’s vocals become blurred to the point where they’re singing through their fringes. Sometimes a rush comes close to head-bursting: “Arise from the Ashes”’ deep glimmer and oceanic boom is almost too much to stomach, but its cyclic cry of “Never give up” segues well into “Lost in the Tides of Time.” For this one, the faded piano motif is as fragile as Starman (1984); universal love gurgles in an echo chamber. Only “The Key” feels particularly unfriendly with its queasy programming and sad hums projecting some tiny trip-changing fright. Luckily the drums are at their crispest here, so you don’t need to start eating tangerines to jump-start the comedown, not yet. Not at all, really, as there’s absolutely no way anyone who wants to get high should dip out on “Horizons and Beyond” where wonkily-accompanied girly vox generate a succulent Enya vibe. The sun folds ‘round you like clothes. You feel as though you’re very still in the sea.\n\nOr at least you will, if you’ve got time. You need to give Ecovillage time or otherwise you’ll think you’re in World Music hell (you actually are on “Mustard Seed,” but we’ll let that one go as that). Phoenix Asteroid boasts so many Europads and angular beats it could easily be the ’80s gone soluble, but it’s the way its creators stir it together that lifts it three inches from the crowd. The delicate haze is beefier than you first might think—you might even find yourself standing for “Here and Now”—and Peter Wikström and Emil Holmström are working quite hard to stay very original. I doubt you’ll hear another record like Phoenix Asteroid this year, not unless you left your tapes in the sun. I also doubt that you’ll hate it." ]

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[ "Brad Gough breaks down the goals scored in FC Cincinnati’s 3-1 loss at FC Dallas on Saturday in this edition of How They Happened.\n\nAn early goal undid FC Cincinnati once again as it fell 3-1 to FC Dallas on Saturday. Here is a look at what lead to each goal scored.\n\nDallas’ opening goal arose from a cascade of problems that began, as so many goals do, with a single player tuning out and making a simple mistake. This time it was Allan Cruz who failed to track Michael Barrios after the winger made a simple give and go pass to the inside.", null, "Cruz simply chose not to follow the runner. As Barrios received the return pass, Leonardo Bertone was forced to vacate the center of the field to pressure him. Jesús Ferreira (dark blue circle) continued his run forward into the space vacated by Bertone.", null, "Cruz wasn’t the only member of the Orange and Blue to have a momentary lapse in judgment during the buildup. Barrios was able to release the ball just before Bertone could put the tackle in, and a wide-open Ryan Hollingshead was there to receive it. Justin Hoyte should have been much tighter to Hollingshead, as the outside back was his sole responsibility at the time. However, Hoyte elected to give Hollingshead close to 5 yards of space and a clear route to the center by sagging off of his mark.", null, "Once Hollingshead came inside with the ball, the defending became comical. First, Maikel van der Werff challenged for the ball and was able to poke it away to the aforementioned Ferreira. Victor Ulloa and van der Werff both moved to challenge Ferreira, who moved the ball easily to Zdenek Ondrasek, who stood unmarked at the top of the 18. Van der Werff and Ulloa continued their ball chase toward Ondrasek, this time pulling Kendall Waston in for the show. Ondrasek shifted the ball back to Hollingshead, who after the defensive run-around, had plenty of time to curl his effort into the bottom corner of the goal, making it 1-0 to Dallas.\n\nDallas’s second goal was a case of transitions gone awry. Ulloa attempted to dribble the ball through the middle third, but the ball was tackled away from him. It fell kindly to Ferreira.", null, "As Ferreira turned with the ball, he spotted Barrios, who was left wide open in the wake of Greg Garza bombing forward in transition. Van der Werff was not alert to the danger and did not pressure the midfielder. Ferreira picked out Barrios easily before Garza could reverse directions and get back into position. Barrios finished the transition off expertly, to make it 2-0 to Dallas.", null, "Less than two minutes later a discouraged FCC backline was put under pressure yet again, and once again it cracked. The move started with Kekuta Manneh and Cruz pressing the Dallas backline in the corner. Emmanuel Ledesma failed to pinch in appropriately from the right wing, and Dallas moved the ball easily past the press.", null, "With the press easily beaten, the Dallas midfield was allowed to carry the ball forward into the pocket of space left gaping by a retreating FCC midfield.", null, "With so much time and space, an easy pass was placed beyond Roland Lamah to a wide-open Barrios. Garza moved to pick up Barrios but did not pressure the winger. Waston was pulled wide as Dominique Badji made a diagonal run. With the midfield so easily bypassed, van der Werff was forced to place himself between two onrushing Dallas midfielders, while Hoyte was left to defend Ondrasek, who had dropped off to the back post.", null, "Barrios found Ondrasek on the back post as Hoyte looked on in disbelief. Ondrasek’s header was kept out by FCC Goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton, but once again Hoyte stood flat-footed with Ondrasek reacting first and depositing the rebound, to make it 3-0 to Dallas.\n\nLedesma’s 64th-minute penalty kick was set up by a keen pass from the Argentine himself. Ledesma showed great strength in shrugging off a challenge. Then, he found what many an FCC player has failed to as he played a line-splitting pass.", null, "Manneh cleverly pulled away from his marker and created the space for Ledesma to pick him out. Lamah showed a burst of effort to power past Reggie Cannon, surging forward in support of Manneh.", null, "The finishing touch here was crucial, as FC Cincinnati has so often lacked the nous to create chances from these types of situations. Manneh took his first touch and pushed the ball toward the defender, driving him back and creating space for the cutback lane. The weight of Manneh’s pass was inch-perfect, and Cannon was forced into clumsily cutting across Lamah’s heels, creating the penalty, making it 3-1 to Dallas.", null, "The disjointed nature by which FC Cincinnati was picked apart by FC Dallas is a bit concerning. However, any time a new coach comes in, players get out of their comfort zone as they are asked to consider different situations. Let’s all hope that the simple mistakes causing FCC fans so much angst are a product of players over-thinking their responsibilities, and as they get into the flow of being able to react to situations without thinking, the mistakes will start to happen less frequently." ]

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[ null, "The TV preacher had faced public controversy over declaring that he was the “awaited Mahdi”, (Islam’s redeemer), calling on religious communities to follow him, among several other provocative religious interpretations—fatwas.\n\nSheikh Mizo had criticised Sahih Al-Bukhari, which is a collection of the sayings of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, and made arguments about extra-marital relations, women’s dresses, and other topics.\n\nAlthough the preacher was not necessarily presenting constructive perspectives on the Islamic religion, the crime known in the Penal Code’s article 98 as contempt of religion has been widely criticised by intellectuals and freedom of expression defenders in the past year.\n\nThe reason of their rejection of the law and demands to abolish the prison penalty was that writers, preachers, and intellectuals have been widely targeted for expressing their views, such as in the cases of Islamic researcher Islam El-Beheiry and female writer Fatima Naoot.\n\nThe first had also criticised Al-Bukhari, claiming to bring a new approach to religious teachings in response to calls repeatedly made by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for the renewal of religious discourse. Faced by strong condemnations from Al-Azhar, El-Beheiry ended up with a reduced prison sentence, which he completed in November.\n\nOn the other hand, Naoot received a suspended six-month prison sentence after a lawyer filed a lawsuit against her accusing her of insulting the Islamic religion. Naoot had criticised the way Egyptians practice the ritual of sacrificing animal during Eid El-Adha, but was considered to have mocked an Islamic ritual.\n\nNonetheless, Sheikh Mizo did not receive as much support from those who defended the freedoms of El-Beheiry and Naoot, and TV hosts led a campaign against him, accusing him of madness. Moreover, in December, the prosecutor-general referred him to a psychiatric institution for a check up.\n\nWhere hope lies in Egypt" ]

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[ null, "By\nInge Snip\nPosted on June 6, 2019\nSubscribe to the\nGFW newsletter\n\nBy\nInge Snip\nPosted on June 6, 2019\nSubscribe to the\nGFW newsletter\n\nSophie Gogibedashvili decided she wanted to be a forester during a hike in her second year of university. In the middle of Georgia’s Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park she was overwhelmed with emotion.\n\n“The forest was talking to me,” Sophie recalls. She is still touched by the memory even now, in her office at Georgia’s Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Research, NACRES. “I knew the soil type, the tree species, why the small tree was under the big one, how they were all interacting with each other.”\n\nGogibedashvili has always loved nature and green spaces. As a child she spent her summers surrounded by the lush mountain forests, playing with her siblings at their summer home. When, in high school, it came time to decide on a career, Gogibedashvili had originally selected landscape design. But the hike through Borjomi changed her mind.", null, "Gogibedashvili credits a hike through Borjomi-Karaguali National park as her inspiration to become a forester. Photo by Inge Snip / WRI.\n\n“When I went to the Borjomi forest at the end of my second year, I knew immediately I had to continue with forestry,” Gogibedashvili says.\n\nTo her friends and family, it was an unusual choice and most still don’t fully understand what her work entails. Her mother tells those who ask that she studied biology, and her friends think she spends her days chopping trees down.\n\nIn reality, forestry in the country of Georgia is about unraveling a complex natural and political history. Located on the south slopes of the Caucasus mountain range, Georgia is home to one of the oldest forests in Europe, and understanding exactly where they are located, what kind of animal and plant species they hold and what soil types are present is crucial to their conservation.\n\nWhen Georgia was part of the Soviet Union, mapping these forests was a priority. However, the maps were created with a specific focus on the value of trees for timber, rather than conservation. Because the largest parts of Georgia’s forests grow on slopes too steep for logging, maps available from that time are either incomplete or inaccurate.\n\nFor Gogibedashvili, this means that her day to day work often involves trying to find the right map — which could be in an archive across town— calling foresters in that area, contacting universities and other forestry experts and sourcing any kind of information available. After all that she still might not be certain if all the pieces of the puzzle provide an accurate account of the information she needs.\n\nGeorgia joined the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats in 2009. The convention is a binding international legal agreement to protect the natural heritage of Europe. As part of this convention, countries are asked to map out Areas of Special Conservation Interest — small vulnerable areas with high biodiversity. These areas form the Emerald Network, a web of protected habitats in which forests play a key role.\n\nNACRES was tasked with creating Georgia’s contribution to the Emerald Network. Deciding that a fresh set of eyes was required to innovate their approach, NACRES appointed Gogibedashvili to the project.\n\nThrough the Emerald Network, Gogibedashvili worked with experts and stakeholders from Ilia State University, to the National Forest Agency, to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, to the foresters managing forests across the country. As she dealt with each group, Gogibedashvili had to push for using new methods with people who had become accustomed to the way things had been done for decades. Being only 23 years old and a woman hasn’t made Gogibedashvili’s journey in forestry an easy one. Traditionally Georgia has been a patriarchal society, especially in a field like forestry where mostly men are employed. She discovered she had missed out on several interesting projects because the foresters didn’t think she could handle the tasks, and she has been barred from staying overnight in the field tent on occasion.\n\n“But when they get to know me,” Gogibedeshvili says. “They understand that I can do the same, if not more.”\n\nDespite the challenges, Gogibedashvili has persevered, and her drive to innovate led her to integrate the forest monitoring platform Global Forest Watch (GFW) into her work. Funded by the Global Environmental Facility, GFW collaborated with the Georgian Ministry of Environment to create the Georgian Forest and Land Use Atlas. This Atlas combines GFW’s global satellite data on tree cover loss with Georgia’s national forest data— allowing users to overlay deforestation and fire alerts, key biodiversity areas, land use data and forest hazard information.", null, "Tbilisi National Forest is just one of the forests that Gogibedashvili works in as a part of Georgia’s Emerald Network. Photo by Inge Snip / WRI.\n\nThe improved accuracy of maps and data have revolutionized forestry work for Gogibedashvili and her team by providing one reliable source of forest information. Adopting the Forest Atlas allowed NACRES to determine exact locations of various forest types across the country, even leading to the discovery of four previously unknown forest habitats.\n\n“We found four forest types that are not part of the EUNIS habitat classification system, there was no data about them before,” Gogibedashvili says passionately— EUNIS is Europe’s comprehensive habitat identification system. She adds that they even discovered a rare yew forest stand in Racha, a region in the north of the country. “We only thought we had this kind of pure forest stand in the east of Georgia, in the Batsara state reserve, but through the new tools we found another one.”\n\nNow Georgia’s forests have been mapped, showing a detailed picture of its vulnerable areas from a biodiversity point of view. And as a result, the government is capable of better planning infrastructure and construction development so as not to disturb these areas.\n\nBut that doesn’t mean Gogibedashvili’s work is over. She is determined to continue working to modernize the forestry field using the Forest Atlas and Global Forest Watch. “Global Forest Watch helped our project move forward, it saved us a tremendous amount of time and human resources, as we could easily find the borders of forests and plan our mapping expeditions accordingly,” Gogibedashvili says, adding that she not only plans on using the tools for future projects, but that she’s also been actively and enthusiastically spreading the word within the forestry community in the region. “Everyone should know about it.”" ]

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[ null, null, "Among the components of the future Galaxy S22, Samsung announces that it has integrated a brand new material made from fishing nets collected at the bottom of the sea. This new range of smartphones will be officially unveiled on Wednesday, February 9.\n\nSamsung has indeed developed a brand new material made from plastic straight from the oceans, essentially discarded fishing nets and perfectly recycled here. Samsung’s ultimate goal is to gradually eliminate single-use plastics in the production of its smartphones, in particular by developing new materials like this one, which are much more ecological.\n\nAccording to Samsung, no less than 640,000 tons of fishing nets are thrown away and left behind every year, thus offering significant recycling potential. For the largest seller of smartphones in the world, this is a first step towards more actions aimed at improving the quality of our environment and protecting the planet.\n\nIf this initiative is a first in mobile telephony, the recycling of fishing nets already exists on a small scale in the automotive industry. Manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has therefore announced that it will integrate elements made from 100% recycled nylon Econyl, which consists mainly of waste buried or recovered at sea, including natural fishing nets, in the passenger compartments of its next models." ]

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[ null, "Stephen King was a cottage industry long before this apparent frenzy–likely due to the bazillion dollars IT made; a movie that was…fine but by no means as anything as people seemed to think–to remake his books came into play.\n\nWhich when you think about it is a bit odd because it’s not like King doesn’t have plenty of other books that haven’t yet been made into movies.\n\nIn any case, this latest version of Pet Seminary is directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, who did the excellent Starry Eyes.\n\nThe trailer itself is okay though there’s one scene that’s a bit over the top and if it’s actually in here–there’s no way of knowing because it’s not unusual that trailers sometimes contain footage nowhere to be found in the actual movie–it could threaten to take viewers out of the movie, if only for a moment." ]

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[ "East Kingston Member of Parliament and Opposition Spokesman on Energy, Phillip Paulwell, says he was NOT aware that former PNP General Secretary, Paul Burke, had intended to use Burke’s East Kingston-based company to submit a bid for Venezuela’s 49-percent stake in Petrojam.\n\nMr. Burke is a PNP member who’s considered in some circles as an ally of Paulwell and the East Kingston political directorate.\n\nIn a written response to our news center this afternoon, Mr. Paulwell categorically denied knowing that the former PNP General Secretary had intended to submit a bid for Venezuela’s shares in Petrojam.\n\nPaulwell wrote – “I was not aware that Mr. Burke was going to submit an offer on behalf of clients.”\n\nLast week, Mr. Paulwell told our news center that he knows several companies which are interested in Venezuela’s stake in Petrojam.\n\nHowever, he did not disclose the names of the companies.\n\nIn his written response to our news center today, Mr. Paulwell said he maintains his stance against Petrojam’s shares being sold to private sector interests. He says instinctively he does not support the divestment of Petrojam’s shares.\n\nMr. Paulwell says he believes that divestment of Petrojam shares could see private sector interests closing the refinery and using the terminal to import finished products.\n\nMr. Paulwell disclosed today that the former PNP administration had discussed the issue of divestment of Petrojam with two Chinese companies in 2015. He says the proposal in 2015 was for the Government of Jamaica and Venezuela to sell a total of about 20-percent of their shares to the Chinese companies.\n\nAccording to Mr. Paulwell, the proposed deal included a clear commitment that stakeholders in Petrojam would work towards an upgrade and expansion of the refinery.\n\nIn the meantime, Opposition Spokeswoman on Foreign Affairs, Lisa Hanna, is distancing herself from the offer made by her colleague PNP member to take control of Venezuela’s shares in Petrojam.\n\nMiss Hanna told our news centre this afternoon – “I have NO KNOWLEDGE of Paul Burke’s company other than what has been made public”.\n\nThe Opposition Spokeswoman on Foreign Affairs commented that in all cases where the future of government-owned assets are being considered, there should be full transparency. She says the sale of those assets should be conducted by public tender.\n\nMiss Hanna says her position is that any company which meets the due diligence requirements should be allowed to submit a bid to acquire State-owned assets.\n\nGreater Collaboration Needed for JA Goods in US – Johnson-Smith", null ]

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[ null, "I had some coffee and bread before setting off very early this morning. I planned to get some breakfast in one of the mountain villages shown on my map. But after walking over 12 kilometres (about 8 miles) and two hours, uphill, over the camino alto, I hadn’t found any food and was starting to feel my energy level drop. After passing though Manjarin, a village with a population of 1, I was starting to get concerned about finding some food. I needn’t have worried. A mile beyond Manjarin, on the most remote little track, I suddenly came upon a little stand with fruit and juice that had been set out with a little cash tin for donations. I thankfully gave a donation, said a prayer of thanks and had my breakfast.\n\nLast week I walked for two days with a lady from Holland that had started her camino walking from her home over two months ago. She appeared deeply religious having converted to Catholicism five years ago. She expressed the importance of religious knowledge and appeared sceptical of feeling the spirit of God. She said she had no sense of God’s presence and was amazed when I told her that I believed that God walked with me and I could talk with God just like I was talking with her. To explain my faith and my sense of God’s presence, I told her of some of the things that I received which I believed were blessings and reassurances from God. I was amazed when as a woman of faith, she stated that these things were probably just coincidences and nothing to do with God.\n\nOur conversation made me really think about God’s activity versus coincidence. In the end, I decided that I would rather see God in everything and be wrong, than see God in nothing and be right." ]

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[ "From Persecution to the Promised Land", null, "It was just after 8:00 a.m. on February 6th, the last day of Ramadan 1997. As I walked in the courtyard of my friend’s home, I felt the refreshing breeze and reflected on a beautiful time spent in prayer, followed by a delicious breakfast. The quiet of the early morning filled the air.\n\n\nSo suddenly and violently, the peace was shattered as I heard gunshots and screams. The screams seemed to be coming from everywhere, and were growing louder and louder. It did not take long to realize that the screams were coming from mobs of angry Muslims. They were racing through the streets calling for the death of Christians. Over and over again, I heard “Kill the Christians! Burn their homes! Destroy their churches! Allahhu Akbar (Allah is greater).”\n\n\nThough I lived only a few miles away, I had stayed at my friend’s home following a church gathering the night before. His home was surrounded by a wall and had a courtyard. A man came bursting through the gate, his eyes wide with fear. He was also Christian and told us that Shanti Nagar, my town, was burning. He said, “The town is destroyed. All the Christians have been slaughtered!” My heart was filled with terror and grief. My first thought was of my wife and children. I was very thankful as I remembered that she was still in Lahore recovering from the birth of our second daughter four days earlier. I learned from her later that after they learned of the attacks, they began trying to contact me and could not find me. It was a terrifying time for all of us.\n\n\nAs I began to realize what was happening, I remembered that the name Shanti Nagar means “Jerusalem or City of Peace”. Our peace had been stolen! Our Jerusalem was burning. The scripture from Nehemiah (1:3b-4a) came to my mind, “The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire….when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days…”\n\n\nThe sounds of violence grew louder, and I realized there was no time to sit and weep. I peeked into the street and saw masses of Muslims rampaging through the streets, destroying homes and businesses. My friends and I realized we were in grave danger. We fell to our knees and began to pray. We cried out to God in a whisper, “Lord, if today is our day to die, please help us to be faithful, even unto death. We do not want to deny you.”\n\n\nWe decided we would try to escape through the back wall and go down an alleyway. The chaos in the main street was increasing as we carefully made our way outside of the town to a mustard field. The mustard plant grows as high as seven feet tall in Pakistan. We made our way to the center of the field and hid among the plants. What a contrast between the pleasant smell of the yellow mustard flower and the suffocating smoke of the burning villages.\n\n\nThe newspaper articles and reports from that day estimated from 30,000 to 70,000 Muslims rioted against the town of Shanti Nagar and the surrounding villages. The line of Muslims marching on the village stretched out for five miles in one direction and a mile in another direction. Complete chaos was in the streets. Shanti Nagar and surrounding Christian villages were in flames. Cattle and livestock were burned alive. Farms and fields were set on fire. Vehicles were destroyed. The local medical center, the schools and all the church buildings were burned to the ground. Men, women and children ran for their lives. Women who were pregnant were fleeing as quickly as they could run; some gave birth along the way. Approximately two hundred women were raped. The babies born had no clothes and the weather was cold at that time of year. Approximately one thousand five hundred homes and thirteen church buildings were burned during the attacks. None of the victims had insurance for their homes, farms, businesses, vehicles or personal property. The Christians of Shanti Nagar and the surrounding villages lost everything they had in three hours.\n\nThis is a story of overcoming struggles to achieve success. It is about a poor boy who lived in a mud home of a small village in a third-world country. His life was in poverty and desperation, but once he put his trust in God, his life was completely changed. When you read this book, your life will be challenged, your faith will be built, and all of your mountains will seem as though nonexistent. You will know that you are capable to do anything in life, if you put your heart into it!\n\n\nThis book includes the following:\n—Pastor Masih’s biography\n—loving the lost\n—how to stand strong in your faith\n—truth about Islam\n\nPastor Masih is the founder of Cry of the Persecuted Church. He has been a co-author, has started 300 churches in Pakistan, Bible Schools, and has travelled as a missionary in many countries. He has also spoken in over 1,000 churches, and in almost every major Christian University. He was persecuted in Pakistan, but overcame all of these struggles. He now lives in the United States with his wife and two children." ]

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[ null, "Mrs. Blake was born on November 5, 1934 to Jesse and Eddye Lee Young Turnley in Plain Dealing, LA and passed away on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in El Dorado, AR. She was a member of New Sarepta Baptist Church and was retired from Ark-LA Gas Company. She enjoyed music, dancing, and her dog, “PeePee”. She lived her life to the fullest and loved her family dearly." ]

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[ null, "LARGO, Fla. — Charisse Stinson, who’s accused of killing her 2-year-old son and then lying to police about it in 2018, has pleaded guilty before a judge.\n\nDuring a pre-trial hearing Tuesday morning, Stinson pleaded guilty to the charge of second-degree murder in the death of Jordan Belliveau. This plea comes with a maximum sentence of 50 years. Stinson also agreed to pay the Largo Police Department $27,900.\n\nThe department said Stinson was sentenced to 50 years in prison.\n\n\"This concludes a Largo Police Department case that has touched the lives of many throughout our region,\" the department said in a statement. \"The sentence was the result of a plea agreement among Ms. Stinson, her attorney, and the Office of the State Attorney.\"\n\nBack in May 2019, a judge had set a trial date for Charisse Stinson for March 2, 2020. She was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her son, Jordan Belliveau.\n\nIn addition to the murder charge, Stinson faces a charge of providing false information to a law enforcement agency during an investigation.\n\nShe claimed a man named Antwan offered her a ride and hit her in the face, knocking her unconscious, according to investigators. Detectives say she told them she woke up hours later in a wooded area of Largo Central Park and didn't know where Belliveau was. Investigators say that was all made-up.\n\nIn addition to murder, Stinson is charged with aggravated child abuse.\n\nOn July 1, \"Jordan's Law\" took effect in Florida after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law in June. The law is designed to protect children from abuse in the state's child welfare system. You can read the law here.\n\nRELATED: Attorneys for woman accused of killing her young son say she has a lifetime worth of DCF records" ]

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[ "Home » New and familiar faces: Who’s doing what at ACM", null, "The ACM team includes new faces as well as veteran staff who are helping the organization continue to work with students, faculty and staff across the consortium. Here are some highlights:", null, "Since joining the ACM in early September, Barlow has focused on strategic planning as part of the organization’s efforts to reimagine its mission and its programmatic concepts for faculty, staff, students and member services. He will soon begin engaging the member campus communities for their input as the reimaging process continues.\n\nBarlow is especially focused on building new student programs. This includes looking for ways to provide students with more civic engagement opportunities that address pervasive social problems, both where the programs take place and back on the home campuses.“I look forward to spending a sustained amount of time on the campuses, listening and learning and building these new programs and initiatives together,” Barlow said.\n\nBarlow had previously served in various academic, policy research and civic engagement capacities for the University of Chicago, Roosevelt University, and housing-focused non-profit organizations in Chicago and beyond. He continues to serve on the board of directors for the National Public Housing Museum.\n\nAn alumnus of UChicago, Barlow later conducted doctoral research in geography at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in England. He held a series of academic appointments at UChicago, then directed Roosevelt University’s Policy Research Collaborative to develop new experiential and applied research and teaching opportunities with civic partners across the United States.\n\nA 2018 Equity Fellow in Chicago, Barlow brings a more refined understanding of how to help ensure that the ACM’s new programs and initiatives are equitable, inclusive and diverse, he said.", null, "Barnes joined ACM in 2001 as assistant to the director of finance and administration and became Controller seven years later. She is responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, vendor management, and other financial duties.\n\nBarnes planned to retire in at the end of July 2018, but is back at ACM on a temporary basis while the finance department is reorganized. She said, “I really enjoy working with the people—the office staff and colleagues on the campuses.”\n\nPrior to coming to ACM, Barnes served as a call center director for Safelite Autoglass and previously worked in the headquarters of World Book Encyclopedia for over 20 years.\n\nEd Finn, Liaison for Innovation and Collaboration in Teaching and Learning", null, "Finn joined ACM in July 2014 and it’s his “goal to be on each campus twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, with additional visits as requested.” He said, “I usually spend a whole day on each campus, meeting with faculty, administrators, information and educational technology staff, librarians, and occasionally students.”\n\nDuring these meetings, Finn looks for connections across all 14 ACM campuses. As a match-maker of sorts, he seeks out pockets of innovation, whether it’s driven by topic or by discipline, and makes introductions wherever he can. This includes new technologies in and out of the classroom, learning space design, and exploring new teaching techniques.\n\nLast year Finn began meeting with new tenure-track faculty hires on each campus. In September, for example, he met with a group of new faculty members at Lawrence University to discuss what ACM does and how it might benefit them in their new roles.\n\nAn alumnus of Indiana University, Finn earned his doctorate last year in Organizational Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University. His research focuses on faculty perceptions of ever-changing technology. He holds and adjunct faculty appointment with Indiana University in Indianapolis and is a former staff member at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.", null, "Hutula began her ACM career in March 2004 as a two-week fill-in for a staffer who got called to jury duty. She ended up staying on for several months after that to help with other matters. By July, she joined the association in a permanent capacity.\n\nHutula credits the writing and communication skills she acquired at Albion College in Michigan for boosting her ACM career. “Those are things that you use every day,” she said. Her course in Advanced Expository Writing was especially helpful in teaching her to pack as much information as possible into the least number of words.\n\nShe understands first-hand the world of off-campus study programs, one of the major elements in her ACM portfolio. As an undergraduate at Albion College, she traveled to London through the British-based Educational Programmes Abroad. Her semester in London included serving as a research assistant for The Earl Attlee in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords.", null, "Rubi started at ACM in early November 2018 as Special Projects Coordinator. She will be assisting students, faculty, and staff on a variety of ACM activities—including, the Graduate School Exploration Fellowship (GSEF), which she is a program alum from Cohort 1.\n\nA 2018 graduate of Monmouth College, Rubi majored in political science, international studies, and Spanish. She was also the campus’ Lincoln Laureate as awarded by The Lincoln Academy of Illinois which recognizes outstanding seniors from participating Illinois colleges and universities.\n\nShe is excited to work for ACM and “sees that ACM plays a big role for faculty and students through multiple programs.” She looks forward to learning more about the other campuses and especially with GSEF scholars.", null, "A recent graduate of Lawrence University, where he studied Spanish, French, and Italian, Vertovec was made aware of ACM through his work in the off-campus programs office at LU. Prior to joining the ACM, he interned for The Education Abroad Network in Chicago.\n\n“I love advising students from a variety of strong liberal arts colleges, including my alma mater,” he said. Vertovec credits his off-campus study experience with International Studies Abroad in Spain, for his dedication to international education.", null, "As a four-year veteran of the ACM, Williams works primarily with the faculty of the 14 member campuses, with their deans and associate deans, and with foundations to secure grant funding for faculty professional development.\n\nA 1986 graduate of Knox College with graduate degrees in law and history, Williams has held positions in law, graduate program teaching and college administration, experience that he combines in his ACM work. During the early 2000s, Williams served as a senior administrator at Knox for approximately six years Prior to his time at Knox, Williams practiced law in Chicago and taught legal writing and analysis at Northwestern and Cornell universities. Williams also has lead development efforts at Antioch College and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.\n\n“My legal experience was a great grounding in developing analytical skills,” he said. “Looking at an issue, figuring out the relevant facts, working through the different considerations that might come into play across 14 campuses: that analytical process helps a lot in the work I do.”" ]

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[ "Shabbos Behind the Barricades: Some Notes from Olympia Stand Round 2, Day 1\n\nFiled under: Action, Environment, Northwest, US", null, "“A local politician showed up and over half the encampment came to the front to heckle him by name until he left. Someone was playing Chumbawamba’s “Anarchy” on a set of speakers. “This is incredible,” I told my friends. “I’m never leaving Olympia again.”‘\n\nNovember 17, 2017, a year and a day since the eviction of last year’s blockade of a train carrying fracking sand from the Port of Olympia.\n\nI got home from work at 5pm and had about a million text messages all telling me the same thing: there’s a fracking train blockade downtown. Same place as last year. Come down.\n\nI was exhausted, cold, and wet from work, and had plans to do Shabbat with friends, but I wouldn’t miss a railroad blockade for the world. “Shabbos at the blockade!,” I told my friends. If stopping a train full of materials used in the destruction of the environment and genocide of Indigenous people isn’t Tikkun Olam, I don’t know what is.\n\nI hopped in the shower, changed into dry clothes, grabbed an energy drink, and trekked downtown. The barricade on the tracks and around the camp was already big and sturdy when I got there, and through the night it continued to grow. Inside the camp I found a pop-up canopy with food, zines, and bedding, numerous tarps to keep off the perpetual Pacific Northwest rain, couches, a roaring barrel fire, and a shit-ton of people, many with faces covered. A local politician showed up and over half the encampment came to the front to heckle him by name until he left. Someone was playing Chumbawamba’s “Anarchy” on a set of speakers. “This is incredible,” I told my friends. “I’m never leaving Olympia again.”\n\nThe atmosphere at the encampment was both festive and post-apocalyptic. Pizzas and pallets flowed in throughout the night. A truck or van would pull up with supplies and instantly a crowd of people would unload it and take materials where they were needed. People were playing chess and cards, dancing, fortifying and painting the barricades, snacking, talking to new friends. I was reminded of the stark contrast between the brutal grinding horror of trains, resource extraction, genocide, capitalism, and the State, and the joy of sharing, friendship, crime, and anarchy.\n\nA crew of my friends showed up. We lit a pair of candlesticks stuck into the gravel, passed around a mini box of wine, and appropriated a cracker from the snack table to sing the blessings over the candles, wine, and challah. All around us people continued to move supplies, hang out with their friends, and fortify the barricade.\n\nI moved the candles over next to the couches on the tracks where they were soon joined by more candles, then I went to warm up next to the fire.\n\nThere was a general assembly at some point that was far less excruciating than I expected. Although the discussion started with a lot of proposals for various committees and working groups that I largely tuned out, there ended up being good conversation about why demands are unnecessary and counter-productive. A “media representative” or “messaging group” proposal was shot down. Of course at some point there will probably be someone who claims to speak for the entire blockade, but there were many voices encouraging anyone who wants to write something about the blockade to do so autonomously. People were able to articulate that the media’s job is to discredit the blockade no matter how unified or respectable of a message or demands are put forth. I think it’s clear that the blockade exists to stop a train full of fracking materials. We don’t need some sort of lowest common denominator list of demands or program or points of unity beyond that. Everyone has their own motivations for being here and that’s fine – that’s what gives us our strength. These critiques seemed well-received, the assembly didn’t go on too long, and the debate didn’t get particularly nasty or wingnutty.\n\nI hung out for a little while after the assembly, but soon found myself falling asleep and went home. As of this writing the blockade still stands. If you can make it down there please do! We could always use more food, hot drinks, tarps, tools, first aid supplies, zines, and pallets, but mostly we need people, particularly early in the morning.\n\nSee you at the barricades!\n-an anarchist" ]

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[ null, "Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable.\n\nWiden the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism. That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian.\n\nThe aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia." ]

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[ null, "The Ministry of Development is finalizing the work on the Act on the principles of supporting new investments in Poland, which is said to replace the Act on Special Economic Zones. The new law will come into force beginning of February 2018.\n\nThe new investment rules are to be important mainly for small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland as well as for foreign entrepreneurs operating in Poland. The change is to be primarily the territorial scope of investments, which have been supported by the Polish government so far and the factors influencing the decision to start a given investment are to be redefined.\n\nThe Ministry of Development also intends to extend investment incentives across the entire country, which until now were only valid in special economic zones. Tax reliefs would depend on the location and the nature of the investment in Poland, as well as on the quality of newly created jobs." ]

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[ "How to prevent a torn Rotator Cuff\n\nHow to prevent a torn Rotator Cuff.\n\nCan you believe I have lived 39 years without owning a wine stopper?\n\nHow dare you question my math.\n\nI’ve always just used the cork. (Or the screw top.)\n\nNow I have a fancy wine stopper. Made of a rock.\n\nDon't get me wrong. It's a very pretty rock. From New Hampshire.\n\nTruth be told, I never thought much about wine stoppers before. But after examining my fancy new rock wine stopper I had a scathingly brilliant idea.\n\nI can design my own!\n\nBut before I started designing my Nerdling Wine Stopper I decided to do my own research. I mean, what’s worse than designing something that’s already been designed?\n\nAnd I am FULL of good ideas about Wine Stopper design.\n\nIn fact, I can't believe I never thought of designing a wine stopper before! My first idea was a banana wine stopper. How fun would that be?", null, "Oh well. I've got a zillion more ideas. Like a wine stopper made out of a giraffe. They have long necks, just like wine bottles!", null, "Certainly nobody has invented Chicken wine stoppers. I mean, how fun would it be to stick a chicken's head into the top of your wine bottle!!!!", null, null, "For crying out loud. Maybe I'll just stick my finger in the stinkin' bottle.", null, "At least it's the pointer finger.\n\nI guess the market for fun wine stoppers is pretty well saturated. Unless...", null, "I’ve written before about the Clyde/Walt dissension regarding our Kirby Vacuum Cleaner. I love it. Dave hates it.", null, "Much to my chagrin, poor Kirby has been relegated to the guest room closet.\n\nAnd Dave keeps buying other vacuums. That last only a year or two.\n\nHis latest investment is a Riccar. He was excited because it came with a free hand-held vacuum. Which broke this morning. Already. What a shock.\n\nBeing an engineering genius, I decided to fix it.\n\nThe first thing I did was plug it in. Who knows? Maybe Dave didn’t think of that.\n\nI tried tuning it off and on.\n\nDid I give up? Of course not! I set my laptop next to the deceased vacuum and googled, “Riccar SupraQuick won’t turn on”.\n\nAnd I struck gold at fixya.com.\n\nApparently you just type a question into the box and connect one-on-one with a technician. I wrote, “My Riccar SupraQuick won’t turn on.” And there was a guy named Vacman waiting to help me!", null, "Vacman wanted to know if I’d be willing to pay $28 for an answer. When I didn’t respond immediately, he messaged me: “I am online right now and ready to work on a customized answer to your question”\n\nI wondered if the cost would go down if I changed my question. Besides, Vacman must get really sick of getting the same questions day in and day out.\n\nSo I posted: \"I think my vacuum cleaner is haunted. Can you help me perform an exorcism?\"", null, "Unfortunately, Vacman gave the same response. Would I bill willing to pay $28 for my answer? If he was going to charge $28 to answer the question, I wonder how much he would charge for the exorcism!\n\nHe again messaged me, “I am online right now and ready to work on a customized answer to your question.”\n\nThere's no way he was really online ready to work on a customized answer!\n\nI submitted one last question.\n\n\"My husband got a new vacuum cleaner because he never respected my Kirby. He said it was too heavy to haul upstairs. I think it's despicable that he would replace a perfectly fine vacuum cleaner just because she is a bit overweight. And guess what? Now the free hand-held vacuum cleaner that he got with his new, younger, slimmer, Riccar won't turn on. And it wasn't even 1 year old! My Kirby is nearly 20 and it always turns on. Do you have any advice for my marriage?\"\n\nBecause it’s way easier to fix a vacuum cleaner than a marriage!\n\nVacman messaged me, \"I am online right now and ready to work on a customized answer to your question.\"\n\nI'm sorry I doubted you, Vacman.\nPosted by Lou Clyde at 4:07 PM No comments:\n\n\"Tell me again what this class is?\" Dave asked as we stepped inside the Marine Training room.\n\n\"It's about life as a Marine,\" I explained. \"It will help us understand what Linda will be going through in the Marines.\" I told him they'd cover all the details that she (no doubt) paid no attention to: financial stuff, taxes, insurance, etc.\n\nThe facilitator began the class by asking participants to introduce themselves.\n\nWhat started so innocuously, quickly evolved into an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show.\n\nTake the woman from New Jersey who asked for some advice. What should she say to the woman who had carpooled with her and whose son now refuses to see her? The mother was understandably heartbroken.", null, "People began to sniffle. Dave reached for the class handouts.\n\nThen there was the big burly guy from the Bronx who told us he's cried every night since his only daughter left for Boot Camp. His voice quavered as he described the emptiness of his home.\n\nMore tears were shed. Dave rifled through the booklets.\n\nNext came the single mother who doesn't know what she's going to do without her son who used to call her several times a day and drove her everywhere she went. She has never felt more alone.", null, "I pulled out a Kleenex. Dave checked email on his phone.\n\nWhen the woman from Maryland announced that she had a recurrence of breast cancer and was afraid that this would be the last time her Marine son would see her alive, the facilitator left the room and returned with a box of Kleenex.\n\nShe handed them out like appetizers at a dinner party.\n\nThis was not a class about Marine life. It was a stinkin' support group for depressed family members of new Marines.\n\nDave elbowed me and said, \"I thought they were gonna talk about the 401K.\"\n\nWe broke for lunch before we'd gotten half way through the introductions.\n\n\"Wasn't that sad about the woman with breast cancer?\" I asked Dave over lunch.\n\n\"That woman with breast cancer. You know...she's worried that tomorrow will be the last time her son sees her.\"\n\n\"Right after the woman talked about her son who called her all the time.\"\n\n\"Are you kidding? After that guy from the Bronx started bawling his eyes out!\"\n\nClearly, when the tears began, Dave started tuning out.\n\nThe facilitator covered the 401K and taxes after lunch.\n\nThat's when I tuned out.\n\nWhen all was said and done, Dave got all he needed from the class. He learned all about the financial aspects and nuts and bolts of the Marines.\n\nBut you want my opinion?", null, "He missed the best part." ]

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[ null, "The Cincinnati Reds have acquired RHP Archie Bradley from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for IF Josh VanMeter and OF Stuart Fairchild.\n\nBradley has been a good late inning reliever over the years for the Diamondbacks. The 7th overall pick in 2011 became their closer when Greg Holland was released last year. Bradley will be a much needed addition to a struggling Reds bullpen. While he hasn\\’t had an amazing start to the season, Bradley still has one more year left of control, so I am surprised he got this low of a return. VanMeter is young with some MLB experience, but he has had an awful start to this season. A 2017 2nd rounder, Fairchild was Cincinnati\\’s 11th best prospect (per MLB Pipeline) prior to the deal. He reached AA last year, and had good numbers." ]

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[ "City Voices: A Book of Monologues by Toronto Artists\n\nHey, actors! Looking for a topical audition monologue? Check out City Voices: A Book of Monologues by Toronto Artists. Here’s some info borrowed from their press release. City Voices is a brand-new anthology of theatrical monologues, spoken word, poetry and prose all written by Toronto writers, reflecting life in Toronto at this moment in its history.", null, "The idea for City Voices came out of a desire to not only stand up and show this government the strength of the arts community in this city, but also to create a forum with which fellow artists could showcase their work. City Voices is a completely grassroots initiative that is being self-published by its editors (emerging writers Jenna Harris, Anila Pant and Ronit Rubinstein) as a reaction to our local government’s less-than-arts-friendly approach to governance and its overall lack of support for the arts.\n\nThe pieces in the book were selected from an open call put out this past April. City Voices boasts some of this city’s fiercest up-and-coming and established playwrights including Jordan Tannahill, Jessica Moss, Marcia Johnson, Kate Hewlett, Jordan Hall, and the 2012 Fringe Festival’s Play Competition winner Kat Sandler [Bloggergal’s entirely personal-opinion note: I don’t know Sandler, but her 2012 Fringe play Help Yourself – featuring Daniel Pagett, who’s also a contributor to City Voices – was absolutely stunning!], as well as poets, spoken word artists and writing enthusiasts. The writers whose voices grace the pages of this book come from diverse backgrounds and range in age from 13 to well into their golden years.\n\nOf special interest to Alumnae Theatre audiences are the contributions by Stacy Gardner (writer of Worms For Sale in Alumnae’s New Ideas Festival 2012); Neale Kimmel (writer of Frances and Marybeth – NIF 2011 & Factory Theatre 2012); JP Laroque (writer of Mythmaking – NIF 2011); Carol Libman (writer of A Very Different Place – NIF 2010); Jason Maghanoy (who directed Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End here in 2009); and Chloë Whitehorn, whose piece The Deepest Trench will premiere at NIF 2013 in March.\n\n“It’s been inspiring to see the wealth of talent Toronto has to offer, and to be exposed to work by emerging artists who will no doubt one day be the major figures in Canadian theatre,” says Rubinstein. “To see all these amazing writers come together has been incredible,” echoes Pant. “The experience of sharing in their bubbling originality has nourished my own creativity and fuelled my imagination.”\n\nThe support that this project has already garnered from not only the arts community, but the community at large, has overwhelmed the three editors, including receiving a foreword from one of this city’s biggest proponent of its arts, Olivia Chow, MP Trinity-Spadina.\n\nPlease join us as we celebrate the launch of this fantastic book!\n\nThe book launch will be at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander St.) on December 19. Reception at 7pm; readings at 8pm. Visit for www.cityvoices.ca more info." ]

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[ "We’ve talked a lot about T cells and MHC proteins and how they recognize gluten. But B cells also play a key role in celiac disease.\n\nLike T cells, B cells have receptors (B cell receptor or BCR) on their surfaces that recognize specific pathogens. Unlike T cells, they do not need antigen presenting cells to display a pathogen peptide for them—they are able to recognize pathogens on their own. Each B cell has a unique type of B cell receptor that is capable of recognizing only a few antigens.\n\nWhen a B cell bumps into a pathogen that it recognizes, it brings the whole pathogen into the cell and digests it into peptides. As discussed above, B cells are antigen presenting cells and display pathogen peptides on their surface in complex with an MHC class II molecule. They do this because they need the help of Th2 helper T cells to become activated. Th2 helper T cells that have already recognized the same pathogen (by interacting with other antigen presenting cells) are able to recognize the antigen displayed by the B cell. When this happens, Th2 cells produce cytokines that cause the B cell to mature into a plasma cell.", null, "The main role of plasma cells is to produce proteins called antibodies (also known as immunoglobulins), which are Y-shaped proteins that recognize the same pathogen that the B cell originally recognized. Plasma cells release these specific antibodies into the surrounding tissue where they find and stick to the pathogen.\n\nBy doing this, antibodies stop the pathogen from spreading and mark it for destruction by other immune cells. This type of immune response is often called the antibody-mediated immune response.\n\nThere are five main classes of antibodies—IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, and IgM—each of which have different roles. Two of these classes, IgA and IgG, can be found at high levels in blood samples.\n\nHow Are B Cells Involved in Celiac Disease?\n\nResearchers developed a blood test that was able to detect IgA antibodies that recognized a type of tissue called endomysium.2 In 1997, Dr. Detlef Schuppan and his team discovered that IgA antibodies in the blood of patients with celiac disease recognized a specific protein in the endomysium—a protein called tissue transglutaminase (tTG).3 The antibodies to gliadin, endomysium, and tTG disappear when patients adopt a gluten-free diet, which suggests that these antibodies are made as part of an immune response to gluten.\n\nAs we discussed above, tTG is the enzyme that is responsible for converting the glutamine amino acids into glutamate amino acids to produce deamidated gliadin peptides, which have increased immunogenicity. In addition to changing glutamines to glutamates, tTG can also cross-link the gluten peptide to itself.\n\nResearchers are still trying to understand exactly how gluten causes B cells to make antibodies that recognize tTG, but they think that B cells ingest tTG that is cross-linked to a gliadin peptide. Then, Th2 helper T cells that recognize gliadin help B cells produce antibodies to tTG.", null, "NEXT TOPIC: What happens in the small intestine?\n\nEndomysium - A type of connective tissue.\n\nPlasma cell - Mature B cell that can produce antibodies." ]

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[ "Movie of the Day: The Dark Knight\n\nThe Film: The Dark Knight (Buy it from CHUD!)\n\nThe Premise: Organized crime in Gotham is on the ropes ever since the appearance of the mysterious Batman. With the rise of District Attorney Harvey Dent threatening to put an even greater damper on their operations, they place their hopes in a man whose only desire is to watch the world burn: The Joker.\n\nIs It Good: If objective quality were a thing, and scientists discovered a way to measure to it, The Dark Knight would surely be somewhere in the top 100 films of all time. I said yesterday that I have greater affinity for Batman Begins, if only because that feels closer in tone to my preferred “Batman.”", null, "But The Dark Knight did something that few other comic book films have or will ever manage: it transcended the genre and became a cultural event. Fans literally campaigned for Harvey Dent, scholars debated the motivations of The Joker, and the idea of what a comic book movie could and should be was forever changed.\n\nIs it worth a look: You want to know how Nolan accomplished this feat? Ironically, he did it by not setting out to make a comic book film. The Dark Knight is a crime film through and through, one that manages to stay nestled in reality without paying too much unnecessary lip service to its pulpy roots. Heath Ledger’s Joker looks nothing like the clown prince of the comics; Batman is wearing high-end SWAT gear. Only Two-Face, charred and chewed thanks to surprisingly realistic digital makeup, looks like he could have walked out of the comic book. Yet it’s all eminently familiar.\n\nLeaving the soundstages and sepia hues of Batman Begins, Nolan grounds Gotham in the reality of Chicago – framing his crime epic in a manner not dissimilar to Michael Mann’s Heat. And while Batman Begins was a hard PG-13, it has nothing on The Dark Knight – perhaps the darkest, most violent film that’s ever been bestowed such rating. A lot of deaths happen off-screen, but think about what’s implied: Joker slices a man’s face open, blasts a cop in the head with a shotgun, blows Batman’s girlfriend to bits, burns a dude’s face off, and then bests it all by tying a cohort atop a pile of money before soaking him in gasoline and burning him alive. How many PG-13 comic book movies get away with such mayhem?\n\nIt’s not without troubles: the film’s overly melodramatic in parts, the score dominates the entire movie to the point where a little silence would have been appreciated, and the third act falls a little flat before Gordon’s monologue raises it back to greatness.", null, "It’s the kind of film you can write 5,000 words on and still have more to discuss. We could go on forever about the “war on terror” overtones. The film’s good enough that it would’ve found an audience regardless of one of the most tragic celebrity deaths of all-time, but Heath Ledger’s demise was still very much on the hearts and minds of fans at realease. A very selfish part of me laments we’ll never see his Joker again, or the third Batman film he would have been a part of. Nothing he’d done before could have prepared us for his brilliance here. The best compliment I could give an actor: never once did I see Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, I only saw The Joker.\n\nHow long does it take to cement a legacy? Ledger did it in 152 minutes.\n\nRandom Anecdotes: For all his love of the format, Chris Nolan’s affinity for practical stunts have led to the destruction of one IMAX camera in each of his last two Batman films. One camera costs $500,000. In 2009, there were only 26 such cameras in the world." ]